Solar power changes lifestyle of char and enclave people
Saturday, 12 July 2008
RANGPUR, July 11 (BSS): Lifestyle of the people of over 150 remote char villages and Dahogram-Angarpota enclave in greater Rangpur has now been changed to a great extent due to the setting up of solar power units in the areas.
While the installation of new solar power units has added speed to the day-to-day activities of the people there and enabled them to have a touch of entertainment, the char people have urged the government and private sector operators to take steps to help set up more solar units at a lesser cost.
People of Dahogram-Angarpota enclave now seem happy in getting solar power plants free of cost. They thanked the Lalmonirhat District Administration, the joint forces, Grameen Shakti, Bangladesh Power Development Board (PDB) and the Dhaka Solar Power Project to provide the facilities.
After being equipped with solar power facilities, hopes and aspirations of the char people and the enclave to lead a better life have been increased.
Presently, over 55,000 char people are using about 5,000 solar units set up with the assistance of different NGOs in the villages of Rangpur, Nilphamari, Kurigram, Lalmonirhat and Gaibandha districts to adapt themselves to the changing lifestyle.
A number of NGOs including BRAC, Grameen Shakti, Rangpur- Dinajpur Rural Service, Protyasha, have installed these solar- power units at a cost ranging between Tk 12,000 and Tk 45,000 each.
Grameen Shakti has so far installed about 300 solar power units at different places of Raniganj, Thanahat, Ramna, Noyarhat, Chilmari Sadar and Ostomir Char in Chilmari Upazila of Kurigram during the last two years.
Users of solar power units of the char areas told the news agency that they could hardly think of electricity in these remote and sandy char areas.
To add happiness to their more or less monotonous life, the reality of having solar power units in these inaccessible villages gets the people inspired in many ways.
The Lalmonirhat district administration, the joint forces and Grameen Shakti jointly with Bangladesh PDB and the Dhaka Solar Power Project took two separate programmes to supply solar power free of costs to the people of Dahogram- Angarpota enclave under Patgram Upazila in Lalmonirhat district.
Under the two programmes taken jointly by the district administration, joint forces and solar power company Grameen Shakti and another by the PDB and the Dhaka Solar Power Project, the setting up of a total of 150 solar plants have been completed in Dahogram-Angarpota enclave.
While the installation of new solar power units has added speed to the day-to-day activities of the people there and enabled them to have a touch of entertainment, the char people have urged the government and private sector operators to take steps to help set up more solar units at a lesser cost.
People of Dahogram-Angarpota enclave now seem happy in getting solar power plants free of cost. They thanked the Lalmonirhat District Administration, the joint forces, Grameen Shakti, Bangladesh Power Development Board (PDB) and the Dhaka Solar Power Project to provide the facilities.
After being equipped with solar power facilities, hopes and aspirations of the char people and the enclave to lead a better life have been increased.
Presently, over 55,000 char people are using about 5,000 solar units set up with the assistance of different NGOs in the villages of Rangpur, Nilphamari, Kurigram, Lalmonirhat and Gaibandha districts to adapt themselves to the changing lifestyle.
A number of NGOs including BRAC, Grameen Shakti, Rangpur- Dinajpur Rural Service, Protyasha, have installed these solar- power units at a cost ranging between Tk 12,000 and Tk 45,000 each.
Grameen Shakti has so far installed about 300 solar power units at different places of Raniganj, Thanahat, Ramna, Noyarhat, Chilmari Sadar and Ostomir Char in Chilmari Upazila of Kurigram during the last two years.
Users of solar power units of the char areas told the news agency that they could hardly think of electricity in these remote and sandy char areas.
To add happiness to their more or less monotonous life, the reality of having solar power units in these inaccessible villages gets the people inspired in many ways.
The Lalmonirhat district administration, the joint forces and Grameen Shakti jointly with Bangladesh PDB and the Dhaka Solar Power Project took two separate programmes to supply solar power free of costs to the people of Dahogram- Angarpota enclave under Patgram Upazila in Lalmonirhat district.
Under the two programmes taken jointly by the district administration, joint forces and solar power company Grameen Shakti and another by the PDB and the Dhaka Solar Power Project, the setting up of a total of 150 solar plants have been completed in Dahogram-Angarpota enclave.