Paddy is the biggest crop of India. Rice is the staple food for 75% people of India. Paddy crop is about 200 million tonnes. It will generate 150 million tonnes of rice and 50 million tonnes of rice husk. To remove the rice husk from the paddy and to get the rice is really very simple technology. Previously people used to do by hand pounding. Then simple rice hullers were developed. Hand operated rice hullers also were developed. Any rice milling technology expert still can develop hand operated simple rice huller of 100kg per hour capacity. If human power is utilized, lakhs of people can get employment in preparing rice from paddy at local level i.e. in farms and villages itself. This is surest way of removing exploitation of big rice mills. But now a days there is aversion of utilizing human power. It is considered as drudgery. In fact it should be considered enjoyment to make your own rice from your own rice for your own consumption. This is true Swadeshi work. But if human power is not desired, mechanical power can be used to drive the rice the rice huller for hulling the rice locally. Aim should be that paddy must be processed into rice just in the farm or at least in the village. In no circumstances paddy should go out of village to big rice mills. In processing paddy into rice at the farm level, hurdle is of power only. Electricity is not available in every farm. Diesel engine will become very costly for processing paddy into rice. Now a days small rice hullers are not available. So there is acute need for development of small rice hullers, say 250kg to 500kg processing capacity per hour. It may require 5 to 10HP mechanical power. This much power can be produced at every farm by burning rice husk as fuel in the small boiler thus producing steam and running the 5 to 10 HP steam engine . Roughly 30% rice husk will be consumed in running the rice huller and 70% rice husk will remain surplus. If rice huller has a capacity of 500kg of paddy per hour, then 125 kg rice husk will be produced per hour. Out of this quantity, roughly 40kg of rice husk will be used in the boiler per hour to run the steam engine to drive the rice huller. So steam engine operated rice hullers will be highly viable for farmers, because farmers will be able to sell rice at higher prices than selling the paddy at very low price. One rice huller of 500kg capacity, working 8 hours in a day will process 4000kg of paddy i.e. 4 tonnes in a day. If working season id for 150 days, total processing in a season will be 6000 tonnes. So for processing entire crop of 200milion tonnes, roughly 3 lakh rice hullers will be required. In a present system of big rice mills, they exploit the farmers heavily. They give very low price of paddy to farmers. If total exploitation of centralized rice industry is Rs.5 per kg of paddy, total amount for India becomes 200 million tonnes x 1000 kg x Rs.5 = 1 million x million = 100000 crores . This is a huge money drained from farmers to rice mill owners and rice traders. To stop this exploitation, 3 lakh rice hullers must be developed and installed into villages. The cost of the rice huller may be around Rs.50000/-. Small boilers also can be manufactured in villages by blacksmiths and technicians. So complete power independent rice huller consisting of rice huller , steam engine and boiler will cost roughly 1.5 to 2 lakhs. This will be excellent family enterprise where all near by farmers can get their paddy processed into rice on custom milling basis so that no sales purchase activity will be there and farmers will be the owners of the rice. So they can sell their rice at the better prices. This way entire rice milling business must be fully decentralized into village scale rice hullers and present giant capacity rice mills must die their natural death.

Before the emergence of big rice mils, entire population used to eat unpolished rice everywhere. But big rice millers started polishing of rice for bad profit motive. Because they were knowing that by polishing process outer nutritious elements of rice kernels are removed. So nutrition has also gone and some weight has also gone. So polishing makes double disadvantage. Only for marketing purpose white attractive appearance of rice kernels was created. Now a days it has become wide spread and entire rice production is invariably polished and people have forgotten the beauty of unpolished rice. If this entire rice milling industry is decentralized at village scale, then again there is need to popularize to eat unpolished rice. Ethical traders of rice should make special efforts to popularize unpolished rice in cities. This is subject of mass awareness. The health department of governments also should help to create such awareness. But recent day governments are sold out to multinational companies and centralize big industries. So we can not expect anything from them. So enthusiastic village workers should take up this work of establishing rice hullers in villages and selling unpolished rice into cities by inculcating to the people that real rice is unpolished rice and polished rice is stuff less product. It is our misfortune that entire rice mill industry has been heavily centralized into a few hundred giant rice mills. Crores of our common people have to become victim of exploitation of big rice mills owners. This is the challenge for engineers, technicians and village workers to get rid our entire mass from such pitiful exploitation in the matter of basic food of rice. This is not a very big task. If engineers and technicians start working with full confidence for establishing rice hullers, only within 5 years miracles can be achieved. Technology of rice huller is not complicated at all. Those who jump into business of making tiny rice hullers and disseminating it into villages will earn fortunes.

India produces 200 million tonnes of paddy. One tonne paddy gives 700 kg of rice and 300 kg of rice husk. Rice husk has heating value (calorific value) of 3000 kcal per kg. So it is excellent fuel. So we can burn rice husk and produce steam and generate power from it. For villages 10 KW power plant based on steam engine is quite appropriate which can process 4000 kg. of paddy into unpolished rice in 8 hours and it will also generate rice husk of 1200 kg. as fuel. In processing 4000 kg. of paddy, about 700 kg.(60%) of rice husk will be consumed and 500 kg. (40%) of rice husk will remain surplus which can be utilized to run the 10 kw power plant for generating electricity which can provide lights to 200 homes at night for 3 CFL lamps of 11 W each. So to process entire production of paddy into rice, we require 4 lakhs 10 kw power plants which will remove entire exploitation of big rice mills worth of Rs. 100000 crores. It means that 4 Lakhs tiny power plants of 10 kw will increase rural wealth by Rs. 100000 crores simply by rice milling in villages. Moreover this will electrify 80 million homes of all the rice producing villages of India with green electricity and this will also provide employment to 20 lakhs people.

At present, electricity is not given in villages. 10 crores of homes have no electric connection at all. Rural population is suffering heavy injustice in this matter. By making excuse of non availability of electricity into villages, Government is advancing the scheme of giant nuclear power plants which are most dangerous for the safety of people, most hazardous, most polluting and most expensive also. Government is simply favouring dangerous multinational American companies and corporations allowing them to exploit entire India by snatching away small farmers' land and leaving them at the mercy of merciless people. Even after spending billions and billions of rupees on nuclear power plants, production capacity of nuclear power plants has not gone beyond 4000 MW. Investment in nuclear energy per mw is said to be Rs. 30 crores and production cost per KWH is also about Rs. 15/-.

As against this, 4 lakhs of tiny power plants of 10 kw based on rice husk will make total installed capacity of 4000 MW and will invest only 2 crorers per MW i.e. less than 10% investment in nuclear power plant. So there will be very cheap, innocent and renewable green energy in all the rural homes of India.

But government is acting as if it is enemy of people. Government does not promote tiny rural power plants based on rice husk and other agro waste and always thinks in terms of giant power plants of nuclear energy or coal energy which are not only hazardous and polluting but also heavily expensive.

At present, entire paddy processing into rice is made through a few thousand big rice mills which use electricity produce in thermal power plants & nuclear power plants. Consumption of electricity in all rice mills may be about 4000 MW. i.e. we can safely assume that entire electricity produced in nuclear power plants goes for big rice mills. This is complete wastage and extravagency. Heaps of rice husk are dumped as waste and scare electricity is consumed in rice processing.

But Solution is very simple by developing 4 lakhs rice husk operated tiny power plants of 10 kw capacity. Thus we can save grid electricity of 4000 MW and stop installing further nuclear power plants and become self reliant in rice processing and providing electricity to 8 million homes also.

So rural people should think in constructive direction to set up tiny 10 KW power plants based on rice husk in all the villages in lakhs of numbers by peoples own initiative. This way rural people can produce their own power in villages and process paddy into rice in all the villages and we can become free from exploitation of big rice mills and increase the wealth of villages worth Rs. 100000 crores. This type of constructive activity will force the Government to think in right direction in favour of the villages and against the exploitative multinational companies.

Here I have thought about rice milling only but tiny steam power plants are useful and blessing in jaggery making, oil milling, cotton ginning, spinning and weaving of cloths, in water lifting for irrigation etc. etc. I have estimated that more than 1 crore such tiny steam power plants can work in India which will increase rural wealth of Rs. five lakh crores.

(1 crore = 10 million, 1 lakh = 100000 = 0.1 million) 

Thermal power plants is the main source of energy and electricity in India and almost all countries of the world. Most of the giant thermal power plants have capacity of 500MW to 1000 MW. Investment in such giant thermal power plants is Rs 100 million per MW including transmission lines and distribution lines. ( 60 rupees = 1 US$, MW=1000KW). So 1000MW thermal power plant costs Rs 100 million/MW x 1000MW =Rs 100 billion.

Now let us think about tiny thermal power plants. Mostly 10 HP power plant will be people's friendly as it will satisfy most of the basic needs of the people such as oil milling, rice hulling, cotton ginning, yarn spinning, cloth weaving, sugarcane crushing, grain grinding, water pumping, village lighting etc. This will be equivalent of 10 KW electric power which when converted to mechanical power will be 10 HP. This 10 HP thermal power plant without generator will cost Rs 270000/- . Let us compare this with giant power plant. One MW i.e. 1000KW cost Rs 100 million. So 10KW costs Rs 1 million. But in practice it costs Rs 270000/-. It is only 27% cost of giant power plants.
But this cost of Rs 270000/- can be drastically reduced. Tiny thermal power plant consists of steam engine and suitable boiler which generates steam, and alternator if electricity is required. But we have observed that in most of the cases, no electricity is required as direct mechanical power of steam engine can be more efficiently used by running the machines by belts. So power plant means only steam engine and boiler. Now main cost in power plant is boiler. At least 2/3 cost is boiler and 1/3 cost is steam engine. So 10 hp steam engine costs Rs 90000/- and Boiler costs Rs 180000/-.

Now when steam engines will be mass produced in thousands, its cost will reduce to Rs 50000/-. And when boilers will be produced in villages by technicians even without any mass production, its cost will also reduce to Rs 50000/- from Rs 180000/-!  So 10 HP steam power plant will cost only Rs 100000/- which is only 10% cost of giant thermal power plant compared on equal capacity. It means that 100 steam power plants of 10 HP ( equivalent to one MW)  will cost only 100 plants x Rs100000 = Rs 10 million i.e. only 10% of 100 million investment in giant thermal power plant per MW.

But how cost of the boiler will reduce from Rs 180000/- to Rs 50000/- only? It is sure that it will reduce to Rs 50000 only. Water tube boiler used in power generation is nothing but series of tubes welded in parallel with header pipes closed at both ends and housed entire assembly in enclosed fabricated structure well insulated. This can be easily done by village blacksmiths and welders and technicians. Just we have to teach them and train them how to do it. We have to explain them construction of boiler and system of hydraulic pressure testing it. This can be done in one week training for technicians already running fabrication shops in villages. Then they will make their own boilers which will be far more safer than presently available giant boilers.

Is this really possible? Yes. This is really practicable, economical and blessing to common masses. 20 million boilers can be fabricated in villages by village welders and technicians. They are really possessing enough skill to produce boilers in villages. India is the country of inherent skill. It is not found in other countries. This skill is artificially and legally suppressed by Indian Boiler Regulation Act by imposing hundreds of restrictions against manufacturing of boilers in the name of public safety. So special vested interest class of boiler manufacturers have come up who produce and sell boilers at 5 to 10 times its real cost. And small boilers are not produced saying that cost becomes exorbitant and hence not viable. So only giant technology of boiler prevails and hence only giant thermal power plants.

So Indian Boiler Act is the biggest impediment against rural industrialization, against creating millions of self enterprises, against removal of poverty and against creating wealth and prosperity in villages. The biggest paradox is that our Prime Minister shri Narendrabhai Modi is totally against Boiler Act and he understands that Boiler Act comes in to our way of real homogeneous development of our country and he wants to abolish Boiler Act. Please listen his famous speech on 5-1-2014 in which he has bitterly criticized provisions of Boiler Act. His speech is available on youtube
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=decVCdTIBU4). In spite of this, Boiler Act is not abolished.

All the arguments in favour of Boiler Act are thrust upon us in the name of safety of people. All these arguments can be simply nullified by testing the boilers produced by villagers at four times the working pressure of boiler, while Boiler Act provides to test at double the working pressure. So all boilers produced by villagers will be double stronger and double safer than IBR certified boilers. So arguments put forward in the name of safety becomes null and void.

So if Boiler Act is abolished or at least it is exempted for small boilers below 30 sq mt heating surface, then small water tube boilers will be manufactured by village technicians and its technology will spread everywhere and cost of boiler will be only material cost plus labour of technicians just to maintain their families. No profit, no overhead cost will be counted in the cost of boiler. Boiler for 10 hp steam engine will weigh about 500kg and its cost to customer will be only Rs 50000/-. Then there will be real rural industrial revolution bringing happiness to every family. Boiler is the main source of producing prosperity. All the prosperity which we see in the world is generated through boilers. Boiler generates steam and steam generates power everywhere in the world. So Gandhiji has also asserted that "We must learn how to use steam and electricity appropriately". So once we spread the technology of boiler to our villages, millions of boilers will be produced in villages. Then all basic need industries will be fully decentralized including power industry. 20 to 30 million tiny thermal power plants and tiny solar thermal power plants will generate all the energy - almost half million MW in decentralized way - running all the industries in villages. Poverty and unemployment will become matter of past only in 10 to 15 years. Then India will become the strongest country of the world, happiest country of the world  and India will become inspiring Guru of entire world. Then Gandhiji's cherished dream of Swadeshi prosperous villages will be materialized. Then only way to Gram Swaraj will be clear and heaven will descend on this earth.
So only one injustice is to be removed. Rules made for elephants should not be applied to ants. Rules made for giant boilers can not apply to tiny boilers. So small boilers must be exempted as our Prime minister Narendrabhai desires. Then heaven will descend on villages. Government need not worry for them. They will electrify themselves. Government should give them due budget allocation village to village. Per capita budget of central and state governments is Rs 28000/-. Give them 50% with restrictions against its misuse and you will see miracle.

Date 24-11-2015

Honorable shri Narendrabhai,

When you were at Gandhinagar as CM, I used to write many letters which you read and appreciated also.

But this letter is the most important of all.

So if you want to make our villages overflowing with prosperity, if you want to provide independent self business to crores of people, if you want to increase electricity generation up to 5 times i. e. 10 lakh MW only by solar, if you want to double the agricultural production, if you wan to abolish poverty and unemployment for ever from India, if you desire to gain and retain your popularity and serve as Prime Minister for next 20 years, if you like to become world leader, then kindly read my following suggestions. Whatever I am suggesting below is really panacea of present situation to solve all problems at a stretch.

1. Enforce the banks immediately to provide loans up to 6 lakhs at reduced rates of interest to purchase 10 kw solar power plant to 8 crores wives of small farmers having land of 4 hectares or less.
2. No need to give single rupee subsidy to farmers. So no any expense of subsidy to Government.
3. 10 kw solar power plant shall generate 20000 KWHs annually. Please enforce electricity companies to purchase all such surplus electricity which farmer will not consume at Rs 6/- per KWH compulsorily. Then each farmer's wife will have income of Rs 120000/- annually.
4. All this surplus electricity will go to grid. Electricity Company will make 50% payment to Banks to pay installments of loan and remaining 50% will be credited to the bank account of farmer's wife. From this income, she will purchase cows and will increase milk production. So animal husbandry will be greatly promoted.
5. Wives of farmers must get loan at their homes, no bureaucracy, no harassment, no forms to be filled up, no any fee, no any deposit to be paid. Please impose tight responsibility on banks and electricity companies.
6. Please abolish all taxes including income tax, VAT, sales tax on solar panels and raw materials consumed in making solar panels. Please abolish custom duty in import of solar cells. Then production of solar panels must increase 50 to 100 times in one year only. Kindly declare all possible incentives for solar panels manufacturing.
7. Kindly ensure that no any bureaucracy may harass to farmers under the excuse of non agriculture use when they establish and run cottage and small industries by solar power in their farms as not even 1% land is used in such industries without affecting agricultural production at all. Kindly declare by newspaper advertisements that up to 2% use of land in industries, no any non agriculture rule is violated as agricultural production is not affected at all.
8. This much is enough. If this much is done, all villages will become paradise in a few years and poverty, starvation, unemployment, mal nutrition will disappear very fast. Small farms of India will flourish with various kinds of industries. Cooking oil, rice, jaggery, cloth etc will be produced in farms by solar power at cottage and tiny scales only. Two crores of pumps will work with solar power only. So agricultural production will be doubled. No grid connection necessary to them.
9. Installed capacity of farmers only will be 8 lakh MW. So no power cut in cities at all. For any industry, power connection will be available in 24 hours only. Electricity will be surplus everywhere. Where to dispose will be problem. No any new giant power house will be needed. Delhi, Mumbai etc will get electricity from millions of farms.
10. Cities and towns also will become heavenly. Urban population will reduce to 75% as 25% living in slums will go to villages. So automatically slums will disappear. Governments will not need any budget for the schemes to expand water supply, drainage, electricity, roads, housing etc in cities.
11. 600 crores kg of lint cotton (350 lakh bales) will be ginned in farms by solar power, will be spinned in farms by solar power and will be weaved in farms by 75 lakh solar powered looms. No any bale binding. No any export of single bale. Once solar power is available in farms, appropriate machinery to spin the cotton and weave the cloth will be developed by people in no time. No any Government effort will be required. Industrial development will be unimaginable.
12. Injustice to women will be reduced to negligible extent. It will be splendid fact that 8 crores of solar power plants will be owned by women. So purpose of women empowerment will be served fully. Entire world will be astonished to look this scene. India will become world Guru. All the countries of the world will come to you to get your advice and to follow you. Europe and USA also will follow you and will discard their exploitative policies.
13. To achieve this objective, Banks have to make finance of 8 crores solar plants x 6 lakh rupees each = 48 lakh crones to farmers' wives. Out of this huge amount, not a single rupee will be bad debt. So NPA will be really zero. In the history of banks, this will be the safest and the most secured loan. FDI is not necessary at all.
14. If you implement my suggestions, then you will get blessings from 125 crores hearts so much that you will be elected up to next 20 years without any further effort of election propaganda.
15. To explain this scheme of 8 crores solar power plants in farms, I have written 56 page booklet in Gujarati KHETRE KHETRE SOLAR POWER which I am sending herewith. Also my Hindi book GAVON KA NAVSARJAN is enclosed herewith. I hope your responsible officer will read it and appraise you.

DANGERS OF CENTRALIZED POWER PLANTS

Solar power has come as a blessing to the humanity, not only to provide energy to all but to save humanity from the evils of industrial revolution. The biggest evil of industrial revolution in last two centuries is the concentration and centralization of wealth and resources and also huge political powers in the handful of people. So huge factories, mass production, big industrial and financial corporations, large cities, huge network of transport, huge scale mining, giant thermal power houses, giant cement factories, dangerous nuclear power plants, huge dams, huge skyscrapers etc are emerged in the world in the name of development which in fact exploit billions of people, throwing them into starvation and poverty. The net result of the industrial revolution has not increased happiness on the planet but it has increased starvation, poverty, disparity, diseases, hospitals, mafiaism, crimes and offenses, terrorism, wars, unrest, suicides, greed in the human minds, consumerism etc and so humanity has lost the way of peace and happiness.

DISADVANTAGES OF MW SIZE SOLAR POWER PLANTS

KW size solar power plants have certain inherent advantages against MW size solar power plants.

(1) MW size solar power plants cannot exist without grid connection. They utilize some energy of grid. They cannot be established off grid. While KW size solar power plants can be established off grid. They do not require any electricity for their operation. So MW size solar power plants are not really independent.
(2) MW size solar power plants require large area of land. Almost 5 acres per MW. For 10 MW solar power plant, 50 acres of land will be required. 100 MW solar power plant will occupy 500 acres of land. This much large space is rarely available. So huge expense of land is involved with every MW size solar power plant. So MW size power plants are not suitable where land is scare or costly. But KW size power plants can be installed very easily in every farm, on roof of homes, shops and factories. 5 KW solar power plant will require 30 sq mt (i.e.6mt x 5 mt) area only. This much space is available everywhere. No special land is required and hence no expense of land for KW size solar power plants.
(3) MW size solar power plants have to feed their energy in to grid at very high voltage say 11000V for one MW and 66000V for 6MW or bigger. So they have to incur huge expenses of heavy step up transformers and sub stations to create and control high voltages. KW size solar power plants can easily create voltage up to 440V by simple inverter. Mostly its generated power is for consumption. But if it is to be fed to grid lines, then also it can be fed at 440V. So no any additional expense.
(4) MW size solar power plants are generally installed near grid lines to minimize expenses to feed power to grid. No such limitation to KW size solar power plants. It can be installed at any place.

In fact any effort to produce solar energy at MW size and to feed into the grid is tantamount to transporting the sunshine from one place to another place. Naturally this will be absolute foolishness. If MW size solar power plants are installed everywhere in the world, no any favourable change will come to the world in favour of peace and happiness. All the evils of industrial civilization will remain intact by way of MW size solar power plants. This is the worst misuse of solar energy.

WHAT IS 10 KW SOLAR POWER PLANT?

It is extremely simple. So much simple that difficult to believe.
It is fully automatic. No operator required.
It occupies only 60 sq mt area. say 12 mt x 5 mt. It is 68th part of one acre land.
40 solar panels of 250 W each with inverter controller make 10 kw solar power plant.
It can be installed in one day only.
Once installed, it goes on working for 25 years.
So free electricity for 25 years.
10 KW solar power plant costs only Rs 6 lakhs.
If deposited 6 lakhs in a bank, you get only Rs 48000/-
But solar power plant produces at least 18000 KWH power in a year.
Only power selling fetches Rs 120000/-.
So 20% return on investment.
So it is economically viable.
But if you utilize solar power for water pumping, benefit will be far more.
If you utilize solar power for running industry, benefit will be far more.
So 8 crores farmers should install 10 kw solar power plant.
Then 8 lakh MW power will be produced in farms in rural areas.
Then abundant power in cities. No power cut at all anywhere.
This is the real way of freedom and happiness.
Look video of 3 hp submersible pump running on 3 kw solar panels in my factory.
https://youtu.be/zj3Z_XFn9Io

1 KW TO 10 KW SOLAR POWER PLANTS IS THE PENECIA FOR ALL EVILS

Solar energy has come as a blessing to solve all these problems and to rectify the major defects in the structure of the society created by industrial revolution. Solar energy is inherently decentralized way of energy production. Sunshine is equally distributed everywhere. So solar power should be generated at the point of consumption and so it must be produced in few KW only. So wherever energy is required, it should be produced there and consumed there. So all the industries related to agriculture can be naturally decentralized at farm scale level. Energy will be required to pump the water in the farm. So 1 KW to 5 KW power will be enough for pumping. It can be produced in the farm itself by solar panels. Energy may be required for agro processing such as flour milling, rice hulling, sugarcane crushing, grain thrashing, cotton ginning, cotton spinning, cloth weaving, wood working, oil milling etc etc. Each of such processes may require 2 to 10 KW power at the most. It can be produced by solar panels. Just use sunshine and get solar power automatically without any manpower. Transmission lines and grid lines will be used to feed excess power in farms which will go to cities and towns.

HUGE SCOPE OF 1KW TO 10 KW SOLAR POWER PLANTS

So looking to above favourable inherent benefits of KW size solar power plants, there exists huge scope for producing local power at every farm for every purpose right for water pumping to any process industry of agricultural produce, at every industry, in every village in every country. It is the real way of happiness through localization.

There exists huge scope of 80 million solar power plants of 10 KW capacity only in the farms of India. I will describe this scope in detail.

There are 9 crore (90 million) farmers in India. Out of them 5 crore farmers are marginal farmers having land 1 hectare or less. So these 5 crore farmers comprising 25 crore population are the poorest farmers and they cannot sustain only on agriculture without some additional income from other sources. Gandhiji also has asserted that poor farmers of India cannot sustain their life without additional income from some home industry. He suggested spinning and weaving activity in every home. But textile industry has been heavily centralized by faulty government policy and it will take many years to decentralize it again in rural homes. But generating solar power in every farm, no matter it may be very small farm, is the easiest way to provide some additional income to really needy farmers. So 10 KW solar power plant is the panacea of this problem. It will drive out poverty and unemployment from India very quickly. 10 KW solar power plant consists of (a) 40 numbers of solar panels of 250 Watt capacity each, size 1 mt x 1.5 mt (b) Supporting structure of fabricated steel for 40 panels i.e. 10 mt x 6 mt (c) Inverter controller to convert low voltage DC power of solar panels to high voltage AC power by which electric motor can be run. So this is the simplest solar power plant which can be commissioned within 2 days only. It is completely automatic not requiring any manpower.

India is blessed with maximum sunshine in the world. We can safely assume 280 clear sky sunny days. Atleast 7 hours energy generation is sure to get. So total annual energy generation will be 280 days x 7 hours x 10 KW =19600 KWH. If electricity companies purchase this power at Rs 6 per KWH, total income to farmer from 10 KW solar power plant will be Rs 117600/-. Complete solar power plant of 10 KW is now available at Rs 6 lakhs. Government must abolish VAT and any other tax. So income of 117600, say 115000 by investing Rs 6 lakhs means 20% return on investment. It means that 10 KW solar power plant has become economically viable and every farmer can afford to install it. Government need not give any subsidy to anybody for installing solar power plants. But government should impress upon all the banks to give finance of Rs 5 lakhs to each and every marginal farmer's wife to establish 10 KW solar power plants. So owners of all solar power plants will be women everywhere. Electricity company must purchase all power generated in farms and they can make 50% payment directly to banks towards instalments to pay debt and interests and remaining 50% to women owners of solar power plants. So NPA will be ZERO. Only this much encouragement will bring huge revolution in our country.Women ownership of solar power plants will greatly empower women to remove social injustice and bring up women's status equal to men.

10 KW solar power plant will occupy only 60 sq mt land, which is just 1/68 acre. It is only 0.6 guntha. 100 guntha becomes 1 hectre. So such a small piece of land remains in every farm rejected by a farmer for any reason. So utilizing only 60 sq mt in 1 hectre is absolutely negligible and it will not affect agricultural production in any way. On the contrary agricultural production will increase because of available power in every farm for water pumping and also because of income of power generation in the farm as farmers' wives will utilize that income in animal husbandry, natural manures and to improve land conditions and agricultural production.

10 KW solar power plant can be installed only in 4 days. If equipments are available, it is not impossible to install 1 crore such solar power plants annually. So in 5 years time, 5 crore solar power plants will come up. This means total installed capacity will be 5 crores x 10 KW = 5 lakh MW. Present installed capacity of all types of power plants is 2 lakh MW. So there will be surplus power everywhere. Power cut in cities will be matter of past. No pending application for power connection. It will be immediately available. So real industrial progress will start after power becomes surplus.

But so far we have considered only marginal farmers. There are 2 crores of farmers in somewhat better conditions having land 1 hectare to 3 hectare. They also can install 10 KW solar power plants in their farms. Moreover there are still 2 crores farmers having land more than 3 hectares. These are comparatively richer farmers. They can afford to install 10 KW solar power plant without any bank facility. So again 2 crores of such solar power plants will come up. So on the whole 9 crores of farmers can install roughly 9 crores of solar power plants of 10 KW ideally. But let us assume that practically 8 crores of farmers power plants of 10 KW will come up. So 8 lakh MW capacity of farmers only. Again urban people, factory owners, institutes having large buildings, hospitals, colleges etc will install roof top power plants which may account for one lakh MW. Adding the present capacity of 2 lakh MW, it will be 11 lakh MW. Then India will be a glorious country inspiring all other countries of the world how to solve power problem and how to bring happiness to common masses.

So no land acquisition required. No eviction of people from their homes. No coal mining necessary. No uranium to be imported. No nuclear power plants required. Not to supplicate western countries for giving power technology. Only 10 KW Solar power plants will make a miracle.

But what about equipments? Present capacity of manufacturing solar cells and solar panels is just nominal. For establishing 1 crore solar power plants of 10 Kw each, we require manufacturing capacity of solar cells and solar panels of 1 lakh MW. But present capacity is only 2000 MW. It must be increased 50 times higher. So government must give incentives to solar cell manufacturers and solar panel manufacturers. At least income tax must be abolished for manufacturers of solar cells and solar panels. Then thousands of new unit will come into manufacturing and capacity of 1 lakh MW will be reached in 1 or 2 years. After we have installed 8 crores of 10 Kw solar power plants, entire India’s production of solar cells and solar panels will be exported for other countries. There also roughly 24 lakh MW power in the form of 24 crores of 10 KW solar power plants is required to create peace and happiness throughout the world. To achieve this target, government should ban new MW size power plants whether solar or thermal or nuclear. Present MW size power plants may continue for power requirement at night until that requirement is met by wind turbines and tiny biomass power plants in farms and villages. 

HEAVEN OF HAPPINESS WILL DESCEND ON INDIA

If this happens, evils such as terrorism, wars, world level exploitation, poverty, starvation, unemployment, urbanization etc will disappear. it will be greatest tribute to Gandhiji. Then heaven of happiness will descend on India. Picture will be more or less as under:-

1. Electricity generation 5 times in 10 years.
2. Entire generation in small farms through tiny solar power plants.
3. Electricity will flow in reverse direction - from farms to cities.
4. Agricultural based industries such as textile, sugar, jaggery, cooking oil, rice will be decentralized in small farms.
5. Poverty and unemployment will be matter of past.
6. Villages will have high rise multi storeyed buildings.
7. Prosperity will overflow in villages.
8. 25% population of cities will be reduced as they will shift to villages.
9. So slums will be abolished automatically.
10. Land prices in cities will fall down to 25% only.
11. Land prices in villages will increase by 4 times.
12. No billionaire, No MNCs, No share market, No petroleum import.
13. No coal mining, no pollution, no eviction of farmers, no nuclear power plants, no slavery.
14. Entire world will be astonished with this revolution.
15. India will become World Guru.
16. Victory victory victory for Gandhiji's vision.

Primary aim of any rural technology training institute should be to create home scale industries related to primary needs of the people and thereby to create wealth and self-employment in villages and to abolish the exploitation of big industries. So we should prepare rural technicians capable of establishing their own home scale industry in the village. As industry must be related to the primary needs of the people, it will create rural alternative of big industries such as oil mills, sugar factories, textile mills, rice mills, cement factories, power houses etc. Generally these six organized exploiting industries related to the basic needs of the people must be decentralized because of our efforts of creating technicians for rural industries. Most of the people create a doubt that we cannot attack big industries and we cannot compete with this well established big industries. This is completely false notion. We can easily compete all these big industries simply because home scale and village scale industries enjoy many inherent benefits which big industries do not have. So any home scale or village scale industry related to primary needs of the people is inherently more viable than big industries. I have already tried and proved in 85 countries that tiny oil mill is far more viable than big oil mill because tiny oil mill enjoys more than 20 inherent benefits which big oil mill does not have. So big oil mill can never compete tiny oil mill. I have listed out all such inherent benefits in a separate article 'BENEFITS OF TINY OIL MILLS'. Similar inherent benefits are available for tiny rice hullers against big rice mills, tiny jaggery units against big sugar factories, to home scale spinning and weaving activities against big textile mills, to local farm scale power house against big thermal power plants, to tiny cement units of 20 bags per day against huge cement plant of 4000 tons per day etc etc. We must remember that big oil mills, big rice mills, big textile mills, big sugar factories, big thermal power plants, big cement factories can exist only due to government support and many hidden subsidies. In a free competition without any support from government, all these big industries cannot compete to tiny home scale and village scale industries.

If we have this faith in our heart, we should train rural youths to start their own tiny rice hullers, tiny oil mills, tiny jaggery units, tiny textile units etc.

I established 500 tiny oil mills unfortunately without any training institute in villages. All are working most successfully. Edible oil worth Rs.300 crore is produced annually from this oil mills. Big oil mills cannot compete my tiny oil mills. So we can go on establishing tiny oil mills upto 3 lakh units in India. As big oil mills cannot compete to tiny oil mills, they have to die their natural death. So our duty becomes to train maximum number of people who can establish tiny oil mills in their village. Similarly we should train maximum number of people in shortest possible time to establish tiny rice hullers in their village. Similarly we should train maximum number of people in shortest possible time to establish ginning machine in his village to gin the cotton. Similarly for spinning and weaving.

So our primary objective must be to train the youth so that he can establish his own business. So diploma or certificate must be avoided because once diploma or certificate will be given, student will be tempted to become a slave with a salary of some exploitative business which is simply dangerous to our aim. Once the trainee establishes his own home scale industry, it will be his success and it will be our success. No any other certificate or diploma.

So courses should be as short as possible. Not a single day more than necessary. For most of such industries 1 month course will be quite enough. It can be shortened to 2 week course also.

As Gandhiji has advised no any training or educational institute should build expensive buildings. Directors and founders of such institutes should understand beauty in simplicity. Please remember that India is burning by the flames of big industries. Before it burns to ashes we have to save India by extinguishing the fire of big industries. So we have no time and we must act as fast as possible. So we should create maximum possible technicians by shortest possible courses. Every course must be for one specific industry only. We should not have long course of 1 year teaching many things at a time. It will be wastage of time and energy because trained person will not establish 10 types of industries. So it is absurd to teach agriculture, animal husbandry, repairing of electric motor, fabrication and welding and making pickles in 1 course. If your institute trains 50 persons with 1 year course, then you create only 50 home industrial units. But if you run short term courses of 2 weeks only then you create 50 persons in each course x 24 courses in a year = 1200 home industrial units. Every training institute should consider local requirement with respect to local crops. In a paddy area course of rice huller must be predominant. Where sugarcane is main crop, jaggery production must be taught. In a cotton area, ginning, spinning and weaving must be emphasized. 

1. The ensuing energy revolution throughout the world will drive out most of the evils created by industrial revolution of the last century.i.e. poverty, unemployment, hunger, disparity, urbanization, polution, terrorism, war, centralization etc will be reduced to the minimum.
2. Days of MW power have gone. Present century is for KW power. Energy revolution is poised to decentralization of not only energy production but also of all the industrial activity in the world.
3. Power plants up to10 kw generated by steam, solar, wind biogas  or any other source is human, cheap, simple viable, manageable and beneficial to the humanity. Bigger than 10 kw is inhuman, costly, complicated, unmanageable and harmful to the society as it gives rise to the exploitation and other evils.
4. It is possible to devise all industrial activity of the world with 10 kw power or less.
5. It is possible to create the world without grid power lines.
6. If grid exists after 2 decades, electricity will flow in reverse direction i.e. from rural areas to big cities.
7. Steam power is coming back very fast and all the agricultural processing such as oil milling, sugarcane crushing, cotton ginning, rice milling, wood working will be shifted on steam power.
8. Solar thermal power plants of 10 kw or below will be millions in one or two decades.
9. Once the technology of making  Photo voltaic solar cells is known, it will be left hand job for every Indian skillful woman to manufacture it at home no matter she may be illiterate. Then real home scale industries for every primary needs will blossom.
10. Transport will be reduced to minimum at the end of 21 century.

I am enemy of all big industries.

So I am enemy of power plants also.

To produce power is simple thing.

small steam engine and boiler can produce power.

Connect generator with it and you produce electricity.

It is simple to produce 5 to 10 hp steam engine.

It is simple to make small wind turbines.

It is simple to make parabolic collectors which produce solar steam.

Any trained rural technician can do it.

Multiply by 50 million and you will have plenty of power everywhere.

So giant thermal power plants and atomic power plants are not required.

Complicated technology makes simple thing complicated.

I believe in home scale family size industries.

It is simple to make cloth.

Dhaka's MULMUL was produced on simple tools worth 50 rupees.

It is still not produced by sophisticated textile mills.

So textile mills are not required.

Gin your cotton in the farm,

Spin your cotton in your farm,

Weave your yarn in your village.

5hp steam engine or 3 kw wind turbine will do the job.

This much will increase rural wealth by 8 times.

Multiply by 20 million and you will produce cloth for half the world.

Baling the cotton reduces durability of cloth by 20%.

Half the machinery of textile mill is to break the bale.

Remember, centralization creates complications.

Complicated technology makes simple thing complicated.

Big sugar factories are evils. ( I worked as MD of sugar factory.)

Sugar is harmful to health.

Jaggery is hygienic.

It is simple to produce jaggery.

10hp steam engine can drive sugarcane crusher to crush 24 tonnes/day.

Boiling the juice makes delicious jaggery.

Multiply such units by one lakh and entire India can enjoy sweets everyday.

one tone sugarcane gives 140 kg jaggery,

But one tonne sugarcane gives only 100 kg sugar.

So sugar factories waste 7 million tonnes molasses making it non edible.

So sugar factories are not required.

Complicated technology makes simple thing complicated.

It is simple to press any oilseed and to get oil.

It is simple to provide pure natural fresh edible oil to all.

5 hp steam engine can run small oil expeller with filter press.

Multiply by 2 lakhs and all the oilseeds of india will be crushed.

Big oil mills and refineries are evils.

They exploit the people, adulterate oil, cause cancer by refining oil.

Complicated technology makes simple thing complicated.

Cement is not mysterious product.

Burn limestone powder with clay by coal dust and you get cement.

It is simple to produce cement and lime.

5hp steam engine will make limestone powder.

Multiply by lakh and all the people will get cement at negligible cost.

Giant cement plants are not essential for it.

Complicated technology makes simple thing complicated.

British Empire was built and was expanded simply by steam engines.

Present globalization and centralization can be broken simply by small steam engines.

In this picture, no big factories, no big companies, no multinatinal corporations.

Local production and local consumption. Minimum transport.

No big cities, no exploitation,no billionaires.

Small farms, small farmers. Self reliant life style.

Everybody works, everybody enjoys tension free happy life.

People are stronger, Government is weaker.

This is true democracy.

This is what Gandhiji wanted. He asserted that precondition of happy society is that all the means of production of primary needs of people must be in the hands of common masses. Do not centralize it.

We have betrayed Gandhiji and we are betraying him at every moment.

We are killing Gandhiji at every moment.

Sooner or later, entire world has to go on this path.

Europe and America can adopt this path and world will become paradise. 

Mahatma Gandhi's inspiring thinking on industries combined with my practical experience of 35 years as Mechanical Engineer has carved the following Basic Convictions in my heart.

1. All the dreadful problems appearing nowadays in the world such as unemployment, hunger, exploitation, disparity, pollution, urbanization, war, terrorism etc. are direct result of heavy and centralized industries.
2. The modern civilization based on wasteful expenditure of natural resources is destined to end in near future.
3. Twenty first century is not in the hands of centralized heavy industries. Undercurrent of decentralization has already started; and by the end of first decade of new century, the world will throw away the dogma of industrialization.
4. Idea of "Everything under one roof" has become out dated. The process of splitting the bigger factories into small units has already started.
5. Principles of more economic viabilities for bigger units are illusionary. In fact where social cost is considered, bigger units can never be viable.
6. Complex giant technology has given rise to complex way of living, due to which greed and selfishness have captured human minds and we have lost the way of happiness.
7. Real happiness is possible only through simple living, which is possible through simple and small technology only. Complicated machinery makes simple thing also complicated.
8. World can live in peace and harmony only if we create self sustained societies.
9. When production is made for consumption and not for marketing, present theories of economics crumble down.
10. Small is possible at every stage, in every industry, in every country. Small is inevitable in every industry related to primary needs of the common masses in every country.
11. Present tax collection systems can exist only on centralized form of heavy industries. This facilitates and increases legalized robbery of people by Governments.
12. Transport is the curse to the mankind. It facilitates spreading of evils. Worldwide transport gives rise to worldwide exploitation. 

My Horror:
Whenever I see any big factory or industry, I am horrified to look at it, because it looks me as DEMON threatening the existence of humanity, its culture, its liberty, its freedom etc.

My Solace:
Whenever I see any tiny cottage industry, I am pacified to look at it, because it looks me as GOD's blessing enriching the life-style of mankind, its culture, its liberty, its freedom etc.