TP Renewable Microgrid partners with Usha Silai School to provide clean energy to electric sewing machines – EQ Mag Pro
~ Targets to benefit over 20 Usha Silai Centres across 200 villages ~
TP Renewable Microgrid (TPRMG), a 100% subsidiary of Tata Power, and Usha Silai School, an initiative of Usha International Ltd. aimed at skilling rural women and empowering them to become entrepreneurs, announce a partnership for a noble cause.
Under this partnership, Usha Silai School will provide sewing machines and deliver training through Sarvodaya Ashram, its NGO partner, to women folks of the village. Whereas, TPRMG will provide a clean, affordable and quality power supply to electric sewing machines of Usha Centre through its solar microgrids. The initiative will benefit over 20 Usha Centres across 200 villages in UP & Bihar States.
The partnership inauguration event was launched on 31st Mar 22 at Rewana Village in Lakhimpur Kheri District (1st Green Digital Smart Village of UP) in the presence of Shri. Chandra Dev Pandey, Block Development Officer, Mitauli , Shri. Birendra Varma, Gram Pradhan, Rewana ,Shri. Manoj Gupta, Chief Executive Officer, TP Renewable Microgrid, Shri. Alok Shukla, Senior General Manager, Usha International, Smt. Urmila Srivastava, President, Sarvodaya Ashram and the local village community.
This initiative will also create additional income generation opportunities for the local women using electric sewing machines that can be used for basic stitching as well as creative embroidery. Initially, the pilot shall be launched in one of the villages of Lakhimpur District in UP and Muzaffarpur District of Bihar.
Mr. Manoj Gupta , CEO – TP Renewable Microgrid commented on this initiative, “We are extremely proud to partner with Usha. Through our off-grid solutions like solar microgrids, we wish to help rural communities and businesses in India meet their urgent power needs quickly and economically. This initiative will provide a reliable power supply to the electric sewing machines, promote micro-entrepreneurs, and work towards influencing others to adopt renewable energy solutions and contribute to India’s rural electrification and transformation”.
Ms. Mary Rupa Tete, Vice-President and Head of the Usha Silai School commenting on this partnership said, “This is one partnership that is a win-win for all stakeholders involved. It is heartening to see how our Usha Silai initiative is growing in terms of impact on skill building and financial empowerment, as well as organically upping the quality of the skills by introducing the automatic zigzag machines and embroidery machines – also ensuring that we use renewable / clean energy for the same. To see more and more women in remote areas empowered, to claim their rightful place in society by becoming earning members of the family is extremely gratifying as that is the vision this initiative is founded on.”
TP Renewable Microgrid (TPRMG) has recently launched the world’s most extensive renewable energy programme for rural areas to help villages get a 24*7 power supply and become self-sufficient. It has covered more than 200 villages and plans to cover more than 10,000 villages in 6-7 years. TPRMG has touched over 14,000 households and Shops in UP and Bihar and gears itself up to meet rural India’s power needs. It has just embarked on plans to take up similar projects in Odisha.
About Tata Power:
Tata Power (NSE: TATA POWER; BSE: 500400) is one of India’s largest integrated power companies and together with its subsidiaries and jointly controlled entities, has an installed/managed capacity of 13,515 MW. The Company is India’s most progressive green energy brand, with operations across the entire power value chain – generation of renewable as well as conventional power including hydro and thermal energy, transmission & distribution, coal & freight, logistics, and trading. The Company had developed the country’s first Ultra Mega Power Project at Mundra (Gujarat) based on super-critical technology. With 4.7 GW of clean energy generation from solar, wind, hydro, and waste heat recovery accounting for 34% of the overall portfolio, the company is a leader in clean energy generation. It has successful public-private partnerships in generation, transmission & distribution in India viz: Powerlink’s Transmission Ltd. with Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. for evacuation of Power from Tala hydro plant in Bhutan to Delhi, Maithon Power Ltd. with Damodar Valley Corporation for a 1,050 MW Mega Power Project at Jharkhand.
Tata Power is currently serving more than 12 million consumers via its Discoms, under public-private partnership model viz Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd. with Government of Delhi in North Delhi, TP Northern Odisha Distribution Limited, TP Central Odisha Distribution Limited, TP Western Odisha Distribution Limited, and TP Southern Odisha Distribution Limited with Government of Odisha. With a focus on sustainable and clean energy development, Tata Power is steering the transformation as an integrated solutions provider by looking at new business growth in distributed generation through rooftop solar and microgrids, storage solutions, EV charging infrastructure, ESCO, home automation & smart meters et al.With its 107 years track record of technology advancements, project execution excellence, world-class safety processes, customer care, and green initiatives, Tata Power is well poised for multi-fold growth and is committed to lighting up lives for generations to come.
About USHA Silai School:
The Silai School program is a pan India community-based rural initiative of Usha International Ltd. This social initiative is aimed at empowering women from marginalized sections of the communities residing in the remote hamlets, habitations and villages of India. Initiated in 2011, Usha Silai School program at present has 29,244 Silai Schools across all the states of India, 100 in Nepal and 20 in Sri Lanka and 3 production centers in Bhutan. The primary objective of the Silai School program is to create a livelihood option for women by financially empowering them through imparting sewing and stitching and entrepreneurship skills. The secondary objective is to create a social standing and recognition within her family and community through economic enablement.
Source: tatapower
