A solar energy based drinking water supply system has already changed?lives of villagers in naxal affected Gadchiroli district of?Maharashtra where solar energy based dual pump piped water supply?system has been installed.
10,000 Naxal villages to get 24 into 7 water supply, courtesy solar?http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/10-000-Naxal-villages-to-get-24-into-7-water-supply-courtesy-solar/Article1-868921.aspx?Chetan Chauhan, Hindustan Times?New Delhi, June 10, 2012 You in India?s top cities may envy around?one-fifth of total villages in 78 naxal affected districts set to get?around the clock tap water supply, courtsey solar energy. Three?Central government ministries ? New and Renewable Energy, Drinking
Water and Sanitation and Finance ? have?come together to provide 24 into 7 clean drinking water to 10,000?villages in the Naxal affected districts under the Integrated Action?Plan of the Central government.
A solar energy based drinking water supply system has already changed?lives of villagers in naxal affected Gadchiroli district of?Maharashtra where solar energy based dual pump piped water supply?system has been installed.
A one horse power (HP) solar energy based submersible pump is
installed in existing high yielding bore well and the pumped water is
stored in 5000 litre water tanks. The water from these tanks is
supplied to about 250 homes in a village.
And, the cost of the project for a village is low (about Rs. five
lakh) because the non-polluting solar system is not a battery ? high
cost ? operated. The water pumped during the day gets stored in the
tanks for supply around the clock.
Despite the government spending crore of rupees in bridging the
development deficit in the Naxal affected areas, clean drinking water
still remains a major concern. In over 90% of villages in 120 Naxal
influence districts, women have to walk half a kilometer a day or more
to fetch drinking water. And, in summer months the travel increases as
many ground sources of water turn dry.
The success of the project in Gadchiroli, which has also resulted in
improvement of socio-economic condition of the villagers, has shown
the government as possible way-out of ensuring some drinking water to
these villages.
The thought has enabled the drinking water ministry to replicate
project in a tleast 10,000 villages at a cost of about Rs. 500 crore.
The villages being chosen are the ones with population between 150-250
as the solar system enables is about to pump water for maximum of 250
people in a day. Also these villages are most remote in the 78 naxal
districts spread across nine states.
To make the effort collaborative, three ministries are set to join hands.
The ministry of new and renewable energy would be providing a subsidy
at a rate of Rs. 70 per watt to install solar water pumping system.
The Finance Ministry?s Clean Energy Development Fund could pay for
some of the cost (Rs 229 crore) and rest would be borne by the
drinking water ministry.
?Once the national clean energy fund clears the project we will seek
Cabinet approval for its implementation,? a senior government official
said.
The government believes that all these villages can get regular water
supply system within 18 months of approval as on site project
implementation is possible and state governments have expertise to
implement the project. For five years, the villagers can run and
maintain the hassle free system.
That will make it India?s biggest solar energy driven water project.
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