Port Blair, Dec 28: The UT Administration conceived the Solar based induction cooking to be an alternative to fossil fuels for remotely located villages / hamlets. A project under the aegis of MNRE has been conceived in consultation with IIT Mumbai to provide Solar Based Induction Cooking Stove to such village / hamlet. Tsunami shelters Home, Chouldari village, South Andaman District is one of the first hamlet in the country to implement the project. All the 99 households in the hamlet is provided with Solar Based Induction Cooking Stove under the CSR initiative implemented by EESL. There will be around 1.2 lakh units of energy saved per year with monetary savings of Rs. 22 lakhs per annum besides the reduction of carbon footprint. The salient features of the pilot project are Avoided use of conventional fuel by the households: About 13,800 Litres of Kerosene or about 700 LPG cylinders per year. Avoided CO2 emission: About 124300 Kg of CO2 per year. Provides clean, comfortable and hassle free cooking option to the household women – thereby improving lifestyle, health and kitchen–environment.
The project is likely to be dedicated to the people of islands during ensuing visit to Islands on 30.12.2018 by Mr. Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India as said by Superintending Engineer in a press release.
