Project Suryaprakash

Project Suryaprakash is an initiative of Tata Power Community Development Trust’s (TPCDT) to provide electricity in rural areas. The project is one of the initiatives to facilitate the implementation of a NABARD scheme of solar energy based home lighting system (HLS).

Further, he villagers themselves are do the entire funding, training, operations and maintenance jobs and TPCDT has only been a facilitator by tying up with NABARD for government subsidy and bank loans. It is being provided technological support by Tata BP Solar. It empowers the existing network of self help groups (SHGs) in the process of creating awareness and making HLS accessible to communities.

The SHG will be runs the scheme, employing two persons and is responsible for repayment of loans. As the existing network of SHG comprises mostly women; the project has been designed to empower womenfolk. Training programmes have been designed for the beneficiaries and the trainees.

Two Maharashtra remote villages Limbarvadi and Bhadaskonda in the Mulshi region of Pune were provided electricity under this initiative.