Eco India: How a solar micro-grid illuminated an unelectrified rural hamlet in Maharashtra

Every week, Eco India brings you stories that inspire to build a cleaner, greener and better tomorrow. Our top story looks at how a Pune-based social enterprise, Gram Oorja, is creating solar micro-grids for impoverished communities, providing a model for sustainable rural electrification as well as empowering the community to manage the micro-grid and their daily energy needs. ********** CREDITS: Supervising Producer: Nooshin Mowla Associate Producer & Script: Shibika Suresh Director of Photography: Mohammad Ismail Shaikh Video Editor: Sujit Lad Field Producer: Sijo Jose Assistant Producer: Gautam Phadnis Executive Producer: Sannuta Raghu ********** Eco India is a co-production between DW and Scroll.in. You can watch the full episodes on scroll.in/ecoindia Subscribe to get the latest episodes of Eco India - https://bit.ly/2M9WTXn For more explainers, and the web’s most interesting videos - https://scroll.in/video/ For the latest news and analysis - https://scroll.in  Follow Scroll.in here-  Facebook: https://facebook.com/scroll.in/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/scroll_in Instagram: https://instagram.com/scroll_in/ Mastodon: https://masthead.social/@Scroll

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