We, the students from K. J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai, have developed a working prototype of a business plan that intends to bring down the imaginary gap between the solar cooker technology and the rural poor while tackling the dual issues of deaths due to traditional fuels and the ever increasing demand for energy for cooking in India.
The value addition of the team Suryopahar would be in terms of the ways employed to take this technology to the community, make them realize the benefits of using solar cooker, and provide employment to the rural villagers.
We would manufacture and sell solar cookers to schools and households in rural areas. Our employees would be villagers who will be trained on how to construct the cookers. These villagers would be sent to Dhule, Maharashtra for free training of Solar Cooker assembly given by PRINCE (Promoters and Researchers In Non-Conventional Energy)
In Phase-I (first 6 months), we are targeting a school (Prathamik Vidyalaya) in village Bhivri, Pune and a school catered to by ISKCON, both serve khichdi as part of their mid-day meal scheme. We would manufacture and sell parabolic solar cookers to these two schools. During these months, the households in Bhivri would be shown the practical benefits of solar cookers by the school authorities. In Phase-II (after 6 months), solar cookers will be sold to individual households.
We are excited at the prospect of impacting the lives of millions by using clean technology as a means for cooking.
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