Vanala Small Scale Hydropower Project

Contribution of the project activity to sustainable development

The contributions of project activity towards sustainable development are explained with indicators like contributions to social, economic, environmental, and technological well-being aspects as follows:

Contribution to Social Wellbeing:

• The project generates employment opportunities for local people.
• The project leads to the development of approach roads, nearby markets, etc. This significantly improves the connectivity of the area to nearby locations, leading to an overall development of the region.

Contribution to Economic Wellbeing:

• The project provides employment opportunities to local traders, labors, transporters. Thereby improving the living standards of local people.
• The project creates business opportunities for local suppliers, manufacturers, contractors etc.

Contribution to Environmental Wellbeing:

• The project is a run of the river hydel scheme and involves no storage of water. Therefore, there is no submergence of forest and cultivated lands.
• The project is a step towards environmental sustainability by saving exploitation and depletion of a natural, finite and non-renewable resource like coal/gas.

Contribution to Technological Wellbeing:

• The project uses efficient environmentally safe technology for power generation.

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