66 Etawah villages to get solar power
Nearly 66 remote villages in Etawah, the hometown of chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, will soon be lit using solar power under Janeshwar Mishra Gramya Yojana. New and Renewable Energy Development Authority (NEDA) has decided to provide solar-powered home electricity systems to 10 homes each of people coming from extremely poor background across the 66 villages free of cost. Besides, each such village under the scheme will also be lit using eight solar street lights. "On the instructions of government, NEDA had identified nearly 16 villages in Saifai block, besides 14 villages in Jaswantnagar block, 11 of Basrehar block, nine villages of Badhpura block, seven in Bharthana block, five villages of Takha and four of Maheva block," said district m.....