Patient and Nurse in Hospital in Bihar

A nurse cleans Sweta Kumaris's stitches with instruments sterilized by solar powered steam in Tripolio Hospital, Patna.
Sweta Kumari had delivered a baby through Caesarian section a week earlier.

Unique identifier: GP027DL

Type: Image

Shoot date: 08/07/2010

Locations: Asia, Bihar, India

Credit line: © Harikrishna Katragadda / Greenpeace

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Decentralised Renewable Energy in Bihar

The eastern state of Bihar is one of the most energy deprived regions in all of India. Government policy to distribute electricity through a centralised grid is failing to provide power to people in rural areas, and tens of millions of people have no access to electricity at all. If this traditional, fossil-fuel-based approach continues, the lack of energy access will soon become a bottleneck to Bihar's otherwise rapid development. This documentation includes various initiatives taken by local entrepreneurs who are successfully developing decentralized non-conventional energy production, using solar and discarded rice husk power systems.

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