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children are taught to teach, today solar power has reached
learn, write, and speak Kannada. hundreds of houses in his area.
Today, more than a thousand The special thing is that he has
children are associated with used solar power to improve
it. Truly, Kannada Nadu, Nudi health care and livelihood. Today,
Namma Hemme. (The land and owing to his efforts, many health
language of Kannada are our centres in Manipur are also
pride.) getting solar power.
Friends, there is an old saying: The woman power of
'Where there is a will, there is a Manipur has also benefited a
way.' This saying has been proved lot from this endeavour. Local
true once again by a young man fishermen and artists have also
from Manipur, Moirangthem Seth been helped through this.
ji. He is less than 40 years old. The Friends, today, under the 'PM
remote area of Manipur where Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana',
Shriram Moirangthem ji lived the government is providing
had a major electricity problem. approximately 75,000 to 80,000
To overcome this challenge, he rupees to each beneficiary
focused on local solutions and family for installing solar panels.
found this solution in solar power. While Moirangthem's efforts are
In our Manipur, it is anyway personal, they are giving new
easy to generate solar energy. impetus to every campaign
So, Moirangthem started a related to solar power. I extend
campaign to install solar panels my best wishes to him through
and on account of this campaign, 'Mann ki Baat'.

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