Alumis provide solar power to a school in Delhi

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New Delhi: Four brothers of Kheda Garhi village in Delhi have quite literally brought a ray of hope into the lives of students in the village school which was battling a power crisis.

The village school is now the first government institution to run entirely on solar power.

The solar panels have proven to be an eco friendly boon to the school's energy crisis. Thanks to the efforts of its alumni, the Goswami brothers.

Engineer Bhuvenesh Goswami says, “When I visited the school last year, I found the lights and fans didn’t work. Even when there was power, the voltage fluctuated too much for the computers to stay on.

The Goswami bothers, who are engineers in the US, fed up with the government's apathy, installed a 4 kilowatt solar power system. Trial runs show that the solar panels generate more than enough electricity to tide over the school's power crunch.

The school generates almost 60 per cent of surplus power which they have offered to use in the village, but the government 's electricity grid is subject to such frequent voltage fluctuations that its incompatible with the schools solar panels.

The rest of the village may be losing out, but the students are extremely happy.

Built at an initial cost of Rs 15 lakh, the system is easy enough to maintain.

Tushar Goswami says, “There is no maintenance, all you have to do is clean.”

Easy to run and cost effective, here's hoping other government schools can take a leaf out of the Goswamis' book and fuel a change.