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Solar power push lights up options for India’s rural women

Mohammud Sanu and his wife work on fine needlework by the light of a solar lamp in Pipargaon Nevada village, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, January 9, 2018. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Manipadma Jena

By: Sarwar Alam

In her village of Komalia, the fog swirls so thick at 7 a.m. that Akansha Singh can see no more than 15 meters ahead. But the 20-year-old is already cycling to her workplace, nine kilometers away. Halfway there she stops for two hours at a computer training centre, where she’s learning internet skills. Then she’s off again, and by 10 a.m. reaches the small garment manufacturing plant where she stitches women’s clothing for high-end brands on state-of-the-art electric sewing machines. Solar energy powers most of her day – the computer training centre and the 25-woman garment factory run on solar…

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