Improving Sustainable Energy Access among SC/ST households in Chamarajanagar District of Karnataka – A pilot study

In this project, 250 Integrated Domestic Energy Systems (cook-stoves, solar home lights, and mobile charging facilities) and 500 low-cost forced draft cook-stoves would be disseminated through local level entrepreneurship model. Awareness and training programmes would also be organized and technical know-how would be provided to village level energy entrepreneurs and end-users of cook-stoves. They would be selected in consultation with the staff of Grama Panchayath, Zilla Panchayath, and Rural Development Panchayath Raj.