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How two friends’ impromptu trip brought electricity to 100s of homes in rural Arunachal

In 2011 when Merwyn Coutinho and Rajiv Rathod set out on an impromptu trip to the remote village of Gandhigram in Arunachal, they realised that the village had no access to electricity. They distributed 'Batti kit', a durable kit that consists of a solar panel, an LED battery, three LED tubes, three holders, three switches, 21 metres of fixed cabling, and a charge controller. In 2012, the Batti project lit up hundreds of homes in the Lower Dibang Valley and East Kameng’s Lada Circle.