[News] In Maharashtra dark zone, village lights up
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Somik Raha
Sep 2, 2005, 7:39:34 PM9/2/05
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Come sunset and Nandurbar’s Satpuda ranges, among Maharashtra’s poorest swathes and non-existent for the state’s power grid, begin their sink into a deathly darkness.
The only exception—the 11 hamlets that make up Bilgaon, an idyllic village of 300-odd tribal families settled on the emerald hillsides around the confluence of two of Narmada’s tributaries, Udhai and Titwi.
A 15-kilowatt hydel power project built on Udhai’s Bardhariya waterfall has meant that since January 2003, every single house scattered in the 3-km radius of Bilgaon can flick on a light at night for the first time ever.
Read More.. (in the Indian Express, Sep 2, 2005)
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Posted by Somik Raha to News at 9/02/2005 04:35:00 PM
The only exception—the 11 hamlets that make up Bilgaon, an idyllic village of 300-odd tribal families settled on the emerald hillsides around the confluence of two of Narmada’s tributaries, Udhai and Titwi.
A 15-kilowatt hydel power project built on Udhai’s Bardhariya waterfall has meant that since January 2003, every single house scattered in the 3-km radius of Bilgaon can flick on a light at night for the first time ever.
Read More.. (in the Indian Express, Sep 2, 2005)
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Posted by Somik Raha to News at 9/02/2005 04:35:00 PM
Somik Raha
Sep 2, 2005, 7:38:13 PM9/2/05
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Come sunset and Nandurbar’s Satpuda ranges, among Maharashtra’s poorest swathes and non-existent for the state’s power grid, begin their sink into a deathly darkness.
The only exception—the 11 hamlets that make up Bilgaon, an idyllic village of 300-odd tribal families settled on the emerald hillsides around the confluence of two of Narmada’s tributaries, Udhai and Titwi.
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A 15-kilowatt hydel power project built on Udhai’s Bardhariya waterfall has meant that since January 2003, every single house scattered in the 3-km radius of Bilgaon can flick on a light at night for the first time ever.
Read More .. (in the Indian Express, Sep 2, 2005)
Somik Raha
Sep 2, 2005, 7:41:04 PM9/2/05
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Come sunset and Nandurbar’s Satpuda ranges, among Maharashtra’s poorest swathes and non-existent for the state’s power grid, begin their sink into a deathly darkness.
The only exception—the 11 hamlets that make up Bilgaon, an idyllic village of 300-odd tribal families settled on the emerald hillsides around the confluence of two of Narmada’s tributaries, Udhai and Titwi.
The only exception—the 11 hamlets that make up Bilgaon, an idyllic village of 300-odd tribal families settled on the emerald hillsides around the confluence of two of Narmada’s tributaries, Udhai and Titwi.
A 15-kilowatt hydel power project built on Udhai’s Bardhariya waterfall has meant that since January 2003, every single house scattered in the 3-km radius of Bilgaon can flick on a light at night for the first time ever.
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