Local, National and Global Benefits Projection

Local Benefits

Meeting rural energy needs in a sustainable way for the selected cluster of villages.
To increase both intensity and productivity of crops, livestock and tree plantations leading to generation of local employment and enhanced income.
To promote local community participation and management of renewable bio-resource based utilities.
To promote self-reliance, capacity building at grass root level
To reclaim degraded lands, conserve soil and moisture in vast areas
To improve quality of life of rural communities, particularly women; - through shift from solid fuels (like firewood) to gaseous fuel for cooking, Piped water supply, Use electricity for lighting for all, Through generation of productive employment generation activities
Empowerment and enabling of local communities.

Reduction in pressure on the overloaded electricity grids.
Reduction in import of petroleum through substitution of kerosene and diesel used in rural areas by bio energy alternatives.
Reduction in transmission and distribution costs and losses of grid electricity supply to low load rural locations.
To reduce pressure on forests by eliminating the large fuel wood demand for cooking.

To reduce carbon emission through substitution of fossil fuel energy used in rural areas (kerosene, diesel, coal-thermal electricity) by renewable bio energy.
To enhance carbon in degraded cropland.
To sequester carbon in vast areas (soil, vegtation and long term products) through multiple goal biomass cover (forestry).