India's 'Solar Man' Sets Up Clean Energy Solution for People Living in Poverty
Handout to Thomson Reuters Foundation/Courtesy of NBIRT NewsDefend the Planet India's 'Solar Man' Sets Up Clean Energy Solution for People Living in Poverty Chaudhuri’s solar energy project has transitioned to helping India cut carbon emissions. By Moushumi Basu KOLKATA, India, April 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — Since he was a child, Santipada Gon Chaudhuri had sought ways to help India's rural poor, so when the electrical engineer was invited to visit a coworker's home in the Himalayan village of Herma in the early 1980s, he saw his chance. "I was appalled to see h...
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