Madhya Pradesh State PCS

• 07 Mar 2023

Sanchi will Become the First Solar City of the State

Why In News?

On March 4, 2023, Dr. Prabhuram Chaudhary, Minister of Public Health and Family Welfare of Madhya Pradesh, performed land to make Sanchi city a solar city in village Nagauri of Sanchi development block of Raisen district of the state.

Key points

• Public Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr. Prabhuram Chaudhary said that Sanchi is world famous for stupas and Buddhist pilgrimage sites. Now Sanchi is being developed as the second solar city of the country and the first solar city of the state to meet the power requirements and make it self-reliant in power supply.
• He informed that electricity will be produced using solar energy for Sanchi city and surrounding rural areas. A 3 MW solar plant is being set up in Nagauri and 5 MW in Gulgaon.
• Dr. Prabhuram Chaudhary said that with the formation of solar city, the power requirement of Sanchi will be fulfilled by solar energy. Apart from this, solar streetlights, garden lights, studs, high-tight lights, solar drinking water kiosks, battery moving e-rickshaws, charging stations, renewable energy-based plant wind turbines and pijo electric generators will be installed.