Ola joins WWF-India to support renewable energy project

New Delhi June 8 (IANS) Cab aggregator Ola and World Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF-India) on Thursday joined hands to support Sahasra Jyoti a renewable energy project in the Sundarbans.

The Sahasra Jyoti initiative is aimed at bringing sustainable development to the Sundarbans by enabling energy access to 1 000 households through solar energy.

The collaboration with WWF aims at enabling sustainable solar-powered energy supply to the households of the Sundarbans Anand Subramanian Senior Director-Marketing Communications at Ola said in a statement.

The Sahasra Jyoti project is aimed at setting up individual micro solar power stations for 15-20 hamlets in the Satjelia Island which is a forest-fringe island sharing its boundary with the Sundarban Tiger Reserve and has an approximate population of 40 000 people.

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