Gujarat's Modhera becomes country's first 24x7 solar powered village

Gujarat's Modhera becomes country's first 24x7 solar powered village

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Category : National Published on: October 11 2022

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  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared ‘Modhera village’ in poll-bound Gujarat as the country's first 24x7 solar-powered village.
  • The Modhera village is located 25 km from the Mehsana district of Gurajat, and about 100 km from the state capital of Gandhinagar. 
  • The village has a ground-mounted solar power plant, and over 1,300 rooftop solar systems with 1kW capacity have been installed on houses to generate electricity.
  • PM Modi also added that Modhera will now be known as Suryagram.
  • The Gujarat government had allotted 12 hectares of land for the development of this project.
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