Bancha in\u00a0Betul\u00a0district is the first village in\u00a0India\u00a0to have zero wooden\u00a0stoves\u00a0and almost no use for LPG cylinders with all its 75 houses relying on solar-powered\u00a0stoves\u00a0to meet their cooking needs, claims\u00a0social activist\u00a0Mohan Nagar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“There are places in\u00a0India\u00a0where solar plates are used sporadically for cooking, but with the help of a team from IIT Mumbai, a special solar stove was developed. No trees are cut by the villagers now for lighting their\u00a0stoves.\u00a0The Central government’s decision to choose Bancha has changed has set an example which can be replicated to make other villages smoke and pollution free,” Nagar told.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nagar who is also a member of the Bharat-Bharti Shiksha Samiti, an NGO spoke about the role played by the team from IIT Mumbai and thanked\u00a0Union Minister\u00a0for Petrol and Energy, Dharmendra Pradhan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said that the project of installing solar power plates,\nbatteries and stoves in all the 74 houses was started in September 2017 and got\ncompleted by December 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Harvind, a villager, who had benefitted from the scheme said that they are now able to cook their\u00a0food\u00a0without hassles and it has also brought\u00a0electricity\u00a0to their homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We can now cook our meals within half an hour and that too without the tension of smoke. We also don’t have to go anymore to the jungles for picking twigs and branches for the wooden stoves,” said\u00a0Harvind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jamuna Bai, a lady from the village termed it as a big development\nwhich has changed the lives of children and women across the village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Earlier our eyes used to burn while cooking meals, it was due to all the smoke. Our children too had to be sent to jungles instead of schools but the situation has changed now. We all get time for ourselves and the kids can study now,” Jamuna Bai said. The success story of Bancha is an eye opener which shows the potential of\u00a0renewable energy.\u00a0Not only will it help the nation economically but will also prove to work wonders for the\u00a0environment\u00a0if implemented across\u00a0India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bancha in\u00a0Betul\u00a0district is the first village in\u00a0India\u00a0to have zero wooden\u00a0stoves\u00a0and almost no use for LPG cylinders with all its 75 houses relying on solar-powered\u00a0stoves\u00a0to meet their cooking needs, claims\u00a0social activist\u00a0Mohan Nagar. “There are places in\u00a0India\u00a0where solar plates are used sporadically for cooking, but with the help of a team from IIT Mumbai, a special solar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-2081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3349,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions\/3349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}