The villages in far away remote areas continue to receive full subsidies.
According to ESAP sources, funds allocated to last till 2004 have already been spent, as they did not want to discourage any enthusiast who wanted to have a solar energy system at home. The result has been that even funding agencies like DANIDA are planning to go to other donor agencies to get them into a funding consortium in order to generate more funds and keep them in a basket fund to support new installations in remote areas, as the government has viewed energy as a preliminary step to fighting poverty.
According to ESAP sources, funds allocated to last till 2004 have already been spent, as they did not want to discourage any enthusiast who wanted to have a solar energy system at home. The result has been that even funding agencies like DANIDA are planning to go to other donor agencies to get them into a funding consortium in order to generate more funds and keep them in a basket fund to support new installations in remote areas, as the government has viewed energy as a preliminary step to fighting poverty.
ESAP has adopted the strategy of strengthening the villagers and helping them with income generation opportunities to fight the scourge of poverty. Besides protecting the villagers in terms of the quality of components and services, ESAP has also adopted a strategy
to strengthen the private sector. The components produced by their collaborating 16 manufacturing companies are further tested in the Solar Energy Testing Station.
