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Pallava Bagla for PTI. Please carry his byline and give creditto PTI)Using cool green tech, IIT-Madras lights up hot-hot PhalodiBy Pallava BaglaNew Delhi, Jun 5 (PTI) Shaitanram, a farmer fromLikhmasar village on the edge of the Thar Desert has for thefirst time this year tasted the benefits of having electricityin his home and says “his five member household has literallyseen a new dawn”.

He is one of the early beneficiaries of a new disruptive technology being spearheaded by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras which promises to brighten the lives of the 300 million Indians who have no access to assured electric supply even today.

Shaitanram’s 58 household hamlet is part of larger Phalodi, a small town in Rajasthan that recently hit headlines as it sizzled at 51 degrees Celsius, the highest temperature ever recorded in India.

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