Looks like a low cost, environmentally friendly way to generate electricity. Joshi made a few simple changes to an old grain miller to produce 5-10 KW of hydro electricity.
Anil Joshi is a botany professor whose untiring efforts has succeeded to bring a ray of light to the villages of Uttarakhand. His work has resulted in more than 1,000 villages getting access to hydro-electricity.
Joshi's story starts in 1986 when he was 29 years old and he decided to revive a dying traditional device, the gharaat, which had once been used way back in the 7th Century to grind grain.
With a few simple changes, Joshi was using the old grain miller for producing almost 5-10 KW of hydro-electricity.
"We have gone to more than 1,000 villages and that means that more than 1.5lakh people have been directly reached through water mills. Since water mills are an initial programme for states and most of states promote them, we have been able to reach more than 25,000 villages," says he.
"And our efforts don't stop at one village. They keep multiplying and so do our efforts, vision and our development. we aim to make each village self-sufficient and independent," he adds.
The gharaat now also powers the villagers favourite way to pass their time — watching the television and television is just one of the many ways in which Joshi has brought the modern world closer to the villages of Uttaranchal and Jammu and Kashmir.
He now wants to take this gharaat revolution to the North East and even across the border to China, which means that there are a lot of green miles yet to go for Anil Joshi.
Source: CNN-IBN
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