NDTV‎: With IIT’s help, This Rajasthan Village Gets Electricity For First Time

Shaitanram, a farmer from Likhmasar village on the edge of the Thar Desert has for the first time this year tasted the benefits of having electricity in his home and says “his five member household has literally seen 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 village is part of Phalodi, a small town in Rajasthan that recently hit headlines as it sizzled at 51 degrees Celsius, the highest temperature ever recorded in India.

In the heat and dust unknown to many, a quiet revolution in electrification has also been unfolding at Phalodi.

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