Lighting a Billion Lives

TERI with its vision to work for global sustainable development and its commitment towards creating innovative solutions for a better tomorrow has evolved a model for providing access to clean lighting through centralised solar charging model under its "Lighting a Billion Lives" (LaBL) campaign initiative. The campaign aims to bring light into the lives of one billion rural people by displacing the kerosene and paraffin lanterns with solar lighting devices, thereby facilitating education of children; providing better illumination and kerosene smoke free indoor environment for women to do household chores; and providing opportunities for livelihoods both at the individual level and at village level.