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And now, there will be light -SR Praveen

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published Published on May 22, 2017   modified Modified on May 22, 2017
-The Hindu

All houses in the State, however remote they may be, will have power connection thanks to the State government’s total electrification project

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM (Kerala):
Narayanan Kani flicked on the single switch hanging by the side of a pole, which holds up his hut. A point of white light, slightly bigger than the tip of a ball-point pen, came alive. This is the only electricity that he and his wife Maathi Kanikkarathi has experienced within their hut till now, thanks to a solar panel that they received from the government 15 years ago.

Situated in the tribal settlement of Pattampara, deep inside the Agasthyarkoodam forest ranges near Thiruvananthapuram, Narayanan’s hut, the only one in half-a-kilometre radius, is frequented by elephants and other occupants of the wild. “The dogs can smell them from far away and they warn us. This is why all the houses in these hills have a lot of dogs. This small light too does not work sometimes. We are used to living in the dark. But, we do not want to move elsewhere as all our ancestors have lived here for centuries,” he says.

It is a cloudy morning, early in May. A group of officials from the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) are at his doorstep. Among them is Assistant Executive Engineer Kuttappan Kani, a member of the Kani tribe, who is the constituency’s coordinator for the Kerala government’s Total Electrification project. “Do you know why we have come?” he asks. Narayanan Kani smiles and says – “Yes. Current (power). Hope it comes soon.”

All across the remote corners of the State, teams like those of Kuttappan Kani’s have fanned out over the past few months, in search of houses where electricity is yet to make its way. They are all working towards realisation of a dream, which no other State has yet achieved – to take electricity to every single household in the State, however remote they may be.

No steady power

“As per the Central government’s norms, a village is considered fully electrified if power reaches the village’s border and at least 10% of households there are electrified. By those standards, Kerala had achieved total electrification long ago. But now we are working in a much more micro-level, to ensure that every household in the State is electrified. Most of these houses have had solar panels for more than a decade, but no steady power supply,” says Mohammed Kasim, executive engineer.

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The Hindu, 20 May, 2017, http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/and-now-there-will-be-light/article18515617.ece


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