It was night brighter than any day India ever had, as the clock struck midnight hour, tricolor of the INDEPENDENT INDIA was unfurled for the first time and Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru spoke the ever revered words, “At the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life & freedom”, and India started celebrations of its well deserved, long due, hard fought and surprisingly achieved through non-violence, INDEPENDENCE.
With every passing day of independence, the country started coloring itself in various colors culture, development, growth, knowledge & learnt the actual meaning of freedom. However even after completing 64 years of independence, today the rural India’s freedom struggle against darkness and for access to energy is far from over, almost 50% of the rural households are yet to achieve their independence in that context, and it is this India that should come to our minds when we talk about alternate energy, or more specifically, solar energy. No other form of energy can come even close to the potential, omnipresence and above all, ease of access, that solar can offer. As anyone would deduce it is the rural India that would be benefited the most with solar power solutions.
This is exactly what I thought when government launched “Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission”, the biggest and undoubtedly the most sincere effort towards, as I would call it, the power of independence, with various government, non-government and private agencies, JNNSM will definitely solve problem of power crisis in times to come.
Dr. Farooq Abdullah, Union Minister for New & Renewable Energy has termed the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission as a historic and transformational initiative of the UPA Government. The Mission was launched On January 11, 2010 by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in New Delhi at the Solar Energy Conclave.
This Mission is named after India's first and visionary Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. For him, India's development needed to be anchored in its mastery over cutting-edge technologies. The Solar Mission is very much in line with his vision, which has made India today, a leading nuclear and space power. He would have been equally keen and proud to see India attaining the same level of advancement in solar energy
Delivering the key note address on the occasion Dr. Abdullah said, three major initiatives have been planned under the National Solar Mission including creating volumes which will allow large scale domestic manufacture, announcing a long term policy to purchase power; and supporting R&D to reduce material consumption and improve efficiency and develop new materials and storage methods.
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