The is setting up grid solar power Plants and micro hydel projects in tribal areas to scale up Energy Efficiency and mitigate power crisis in winters.
A 250 watt Solar Energy system is being provided to the people of the Pangi valley in Chamba district to provide electricity to poor families.
HIMURJA is setting up the solar energy plant, which provides power to five LED tubes of 9 watt, which last for more than five hours, and LED television of 40 watt works up to four hours and also charges mobile phones.
In 2020-21, about a thousand BPL families were provided a 250 watt grid solar power plant with an expenditure of approximately Rs 3.83 crore in the Pangi valley. About 2,162 BPL families would be distributed the off-grid solar power plants.