"I was also inspired by existing mechanisms like the sewing machine foot pedal. He designed a self-sustainable bench that generates electricity that doesn't depend on external factors like a power supply from the government. Vashishtha wanted his peers in remote villages to have the same essential access to electricity as he did. The theme was Sustainable Development, and Vashishtha couldn't be more sure of his entry. Years later, as a final-year Industrial & UX Design student at the National Institute of Design in Haryana, a premier design school in India, Vashishtha decided to enroll himself in a student design competition in Germany. The unfortunate plight ingrained a sense of social responsibility in Vashishtha. Lack of electricity has far-reaching consequences - it can affect educational outcomes and factors such as attendance and dropout rates. Millions of students in developing countries do not have access to electrified households, making studying challenging. As a result, children would struggle to study and complete their homework post daylight," he tells IE. Most of these areas didn't have any access to electricity. As a student myself, I'd often compare the facilities in my private school in Delhi to those in the village. Whenever I'd visit them, I'd be privy to the challenges faced by government schools, especially from an infrastructural and design standpoint. "My grandparents hail from a small village in Uttar Pradesh. A bright ideaįor Vashishtha from Delhi, the lack of access to reliable electricity spelled enormous ramifications for education. The picture, it seems, was not as bright as many thought. Apparently, many households had electricity meters but were not connected to a grid.Īccording to a 2019 report by Smart Power India, a subsidiary of The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy, at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, 50 percent of rural households experience eight hours of power cuts a day. PO Box, APO/FPO, Afghanistan, Africa, Alaska/Hawaii, Albania, American Samoa, Andorra, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan Republic, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Cayman Islands, China, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Georgia, Gibraltar, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland, India, Iraq, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Korea, South, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Maldives, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niue, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Qatar, Reunion, Romania, Russian Federation, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, South America, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Tajikistan, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, US Protectorates, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (U.S.Another 2018 survey of 360,000 by the Central Rural Development Ministry found that more than 14,700 villages didn't have electricity for domestic use.
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