26/11/2012
Increasing access to energy is critical to ensuring socioeconomic development in the world's poorest countries. The problem is most acute in remote areas: 89 per cent of people in rural. For these people, even access to a small amount of electricity could lead to life-saving improvements in agricultural productivity, health, education, communications and access to clean water. In India still around 70 % of our population reside in rural areas which also include "THE FUTURE OF OUR NATION" - "THE CHILDREN" of those families.
The lack of electricity and its effects on rural education is a very serious issue which we do not even consider and is affecting our children adversely .
There is hardly any electricity and most students find it extremely hard to pursue their studies as they cannot revise their class work and do home work in this heat and humidity of summer.
Most villages in India mainly northern side get electricity for hardly 4-5 hours every day and that too at any time. One can never be sure of power during evening hours when most students like to study and do their homework.
Even most poor person wants that his child should study and do well in life. Our government talks big on education without realizing the basic difficulties being faced by students. Effects of poor electric supply are different on different things. However, its effect is disastrous on education. Educational activities extend far beyond the boundaries of school classrooms. Our students can't ever prepare properly before examinations. How can rural kids compete with urban kids under such conditions.
Options for expanding access to electricity in developing countries tend to focus on increasing centralized energy from fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal, by expanding grid electricity. But this approach has little benefit for the rural poor. Grid extension in these areas is either impractical or too expensive.
There is therefore a clear need for pro-poor, low-carbon ways to improve access to electricity in the developing world — solar power is one such solution.The Earth receives more solar energy in one hour than the world population consumes in an entire year.
The Desertec Foundation, a joint German and Jordanian company, estimates that covering just one per cent of global deserts in solar panels could power the whole world.
So need of the hour is to wake up from our deep slumber and help these communities make aware and provide access to the basic necessities of which they have right.
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