MUMBAI: A thousand days of travelling more than 43,000 km across 20 states to promote solar energy and give 750 talks on energy conservation. That, in a nutshell, has been the life of Professor Chetan Singh Solanki—also known as the Solar Man of India or Solar Gandhi—since November 2020 when he initiated the Energy Swaraj Yatra. On Tuesday, at an …
The cosy interiors of the bus provide the right ambience for working as well as sleeping. A professor from IIT Bombay, Prof. Solanki is the brand ambassador for solar energy for the Government of Madhya Pradesh and the founder of ‘Energy Swaraj Foundation’ that aims at spurring every citizen into undoing the havoc wrought on the environment and reduce usage …