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12/24/2004 


Electricity.... FINALLY...Thanks to 2000 person-days of voluntary labour (shramdaan) put in by the villagers, support by the school (Rs.50,000) and AID (Rs.12,00,000), they now have tube-lights in every house and school. Day time electricity will be used for pumping drinking water, creating a grain bank through community agriculture, nursery for afforestation and livelihood generation through small-scale enterprises. The projects was designed by People’s School of Energy, approved by the Chikali Gram Panchayat and implemented by Bombay Sarvodaya Friendship Centre.  Posted by Hello