Hanish Hande founded Selco India's leading.................. technology firm ; which has lit over 120000 homes in India
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Answer:In 1994, nearly half a century after Independence, Mullaria village in Kerala's Kasargod district still had no access to electricity. In this, it was no different from two-thirds of India. Kerosene lanterns lit most homes in the village, darkening walls and blackening lungs. But Mullaria would usher in a quiet revolution, thanks to Handattu Harish Hande. An alumnus of IIT-Kharagpur, and a PhD in energy engineering from the University of Massachusetts (Lowell), Hande had devised a solar lighting system but was finding no takers for it. Arriving in Mullaria, he tried in vain to convince Arvind Rai, a local farmer, of its benefits. But the tenacious engineer refused to give up. One day, when Rai was away, Hande installed a solar lighting system in the house with the support of the farmer's mother. He did not take any payment and simply wanted the family to try out the system, which powered four lights. A week later, when Hande returned to the house, Rai gave him a warm welcome and settled the entire bill of Rs 12,000.
Explanation:Rai was Hande's first customer, but since then he has sold around 145,000 such systems to households, small businesses and community projects in Kerala, Karnataka and Gujarat. Most of them are in Karnataka, the state in which the 45-year-old Hande has settled down. He has proved that poor and rural folk are willing to invest in reasonably priced technology. His achievements saw him pick up a Magsaysay Award in 2011.
It was a visit to the Dominican Republic in 1991, and specifically his exposure to the work of Richard Hansen, which showed Hande how solar energy could transform the lives of the poor. While working on his doctorate, he travelled to the tiny Caribbean nation and saw for himself how Hansen, an American engineer who shifted there in 1984, had used solar energy to provide electricity to thousands of poor Dominicans. Hande decided to do something similar in his own corner of the world