Chennai, Oct. 23 -- Bringing sustainable energy solutions to underserved tribal communities, C.K.College of Engineering and Technology (CKCET), a unit of CK Group of Educational Institutions, and the Sustainable Development Council (SDC) launched Project Ray: Sustainable Streetlight Mission (SSM) at a tribal hamet at Udhagamangalam in the hilly Nilgiris distrct of Tamil Nadu.
Proposed by Seerakku, SDC's environmental and sustainability unit, the initiative has completed its first phase with the installation of20 solar-powered streetlights in Koodamoola tribal hamlet in Gudalur taluk, Nilgiris district.
Home to approximately 120 tribal families, the settlement previously had only four streetlights, leaving several pathways inadequately ill...