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Fuel From Bio-mass In Remote MP Village

The Statesman,
New Delhi, Wednesday, 16 November 2005.

The remote tribal village of Kasai in Madhya Pradesh’s Betul district is no longer looking to Central and state Government agencies for meeting their water, power and cooking gas requirements.

All these requirements have now been successfully met with the assistance of the ministry of non-conventional energy resources, which recently installed biomass gasifiers and engine gensets to meet their energy requirements.

This projects, the first of its kind in the country, is part of a series of test projects taken up under a programme developed by the Ministry to create energy security in villages through biomass.

The programme aims at going beyond electrification by meeting the total energy requirements of villages including cooking, lighting, and motive power with full participation of the local communities, including women.

After the success of this text project similar micro power plants would be installed through out the country where supplying power through the grid is not possible till 2012. As per the project, the villager will produce high yield biomass to fuel its biomass power plants and other energy requirements. The biomass plant will energise television sets, streetlights, water pumps village flourmills and other electronics and electrical gadgets of the 55 families living in the village. The project was taken up by the MNES, as connecting the village with the power grid was not feasible before 2012 as it falls in the Satpura range.

To start with, lights for each household, school, engine room and streets have been provided. A flourmill is being energized and a water pump and milk chilling units are also proposed to be run soon. The village panchayat planted fast growing species in 10 hectors of land around the village to ensure sustained supply of wood for the gasifiers. Besides this an expeller unit will also be installed to produce bio-oils from oil seeds on Jatropha plants, which will be used for running pump sets.

The village energy committee, set up by the Panchayat, will look after the operation and maintenance, fixation and collection of user charges and overall management of the projects. Eleven test projects have so far been taken up in 8 districts of Madhya Pradesh. These projects are being implemented by the forest department of the state.

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