Imphal City is one of the 11 cities selected by Indian Government in 2009 for development as "Solar Cities", but not much progress could be seen here for this project during the last five years.
According to a highly placed source, the Solar City Project has been taken up under "Solar Mission" of the Indian Government.
Imphal was among the 11 cities selected for this project in 2009.The main objective of this project is to augment utilization of renewable energy up to 10 percent by 2020 .
Imphal Solar City Project is being implemented by Manipur Renewable Energy Development Agency (MANIREDA).
As per the project, solar plates and other necessary equipments have to be installed atop all buildings in Imphal City.
However, there is not much work progress.
Solar plates have not been installed on any of the buildings till date.
So far, MANIREDA has lit up some places of Imphal with solar street lamps as a component of the project.
This solar street lamp automatically charges itself during daytime and switches on automatically during night time.
The street lamps have benefitted the public to some extent.
On the other hand, MANIREDA has successfully lit up 155 villages in the hill districts through solar energy.
Villagers of Henglep, Singhat and Thanlon in Churachandpur district, Chingai in Ukhrul district, Tamei and Tousem in Tamenglong district and some other villages in Senapati district are beneficiaries of MANIREDA's solar project.
Significantly, MANIREDA is also working to harness all sources of renewable energy in the State by setting up wind mills, small micro-hydel and biomass energy projects at various places.
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