DFO Senapati distributes solar lamps
Source: The Sangai Express
Senapati, May 05 2017:
Divisional Forest Officer (DFO), Senapati Forest Division Rajesh AM (IFS) in collaboration with Green Hills Society (GHS), Senapati distributed solar lamps to 44 households belonging to poor farmers (including old-aged widow and widowers) in Sorbung village under Tadubi block, Senapati district.
Although there is availability of electricity in the village, most of.
the farmers spend a good part of the year in the paddy fields and farms.
President of Green Hills Society N Joyson stated that the paddy fields and farms in Sorbung are far from their village and the farmers prefer to be in the fields during cultivation and added that solar lamps will be a source of power supply during their stay in the fields.
The village authority and the beneficiaries extended their gratitude towards the Divisional Forest Officer.