The one time richest nation in the world and again on its way to become one is where I live these days and you might be surprised to know that even in the Capital of the nation Ned delhi we get power cuts every day and on an average there is no electricity for atleast 8-9 hours once in the morning from 8am through to noon and the second cut occurs at midnight sharp at 12:00am and that one stays for atleast 4 hours.
The only people I can blame is the government which has failed to provide the basic amenities even in the capital of this country called India.
The GDP growth in the last 6 months? Yes 8.5 to 9% and the forecast for 2007? Well 9.5 to 10% and is one of the highest in the world in that respect but the comman man doesn’t get uninterrupted power supply for starters.
All the governments in the last 60 years have just tried their best to retain power in the next election and have kept themselves far away from projects which will take more then 5 years as they didn’t have a guarantee that when the project will be completed they would be in power or not and it shows up clearly in the power sector clearly.
Power sector has not been completely opened to the private sector and the government is just not doing enough if at all anything to over come the shortage of power.
Loads of unauthorised small factories run at New Delhi and none of the governments have had the balls to disturb their vote banks by shutting down those units to provide enough power to residential areas in delhi which suffer from frequent and long power cuts.
I have planned to built a new house with 100% self generated electricity and water and for that I am looking for a 5000 square yard plot some where in the NCR so I can build a small house with a huge solar power farm on the roof top along with solar water heaters and water harvesting.For water I plan a very deep submersible pump fitted with a small water purifier plant at a cost of Rs 700000 and that’s for water alone but then I am going to have a nice swimming pool in the face of the capital of India where people don’t get safe drinking water but hey I can only care for the country to an extent that it took care of me to start with.
You might be thinking what am I going to do with this 5000 square yards when a house built in 100 sq yards will be enough for me and my small family, well here is the deal.. I am going to have a small dairy farm which I will lease out to some one who would be willing to run it on a profit sharing basis and that will make my submersible water pump legal J and I will get sufficient amount of bio gas from the cow dun that dairy farm will provide and this dung will be used in the small bio gas plant to produce bio gas and that gas will be used to produce electricity when there is a problem with the solar cells or there is no sunlight or the back up for night is used up from the battries.
With all these things in place I will only need a few things from the outside world and hey are an internet connection, land line phone and cable tv.Out of these three there is nothing which cannot be provided wirelessly but the only problem which still remains is the internet connection which is going to be painfully slow if I got for the wireless option as one of the few providers is reliance which only gives speeds of I think 64kbps which is not good enough and the other option is just use the mobile phone or a data card which I already do and speeds are again as bad as they can possibly get.But I will possibly get airtel guys to set up a wireless terminal at my place and at present they have speeds of upto 512kbps which is enough for me as I hardly ever download anything from the net.
Thanks to tata sky and dish network I wont have to be at the mercy of the cable operator for my television channels so the only thing which remains with a wire is the land line connection and that too will be from airtel which comes as a part and parcel of the net connection.
I will be thankful to God if everything works out ok in the next 6 months and the construction takes off well and finishes in time. In total there is an expanse of Rs 3500000 on top of the land for which I am not willing to spend more then Rs 7000000 so a total of  Rs 10500000 which is a massive amount compared to what an average joe would spend buying a house in Delhi but with that price comes a lifestyle which is far from imagination in Newdelhi at its present state. Some people I know say that this is a bad investment and on the other hand I have shown this proposal to a few people who think it’s the best investment one can ever do in Newdelhi and a lot of people will be up for buying this self sustained unit once its ready.One last note: There will be no smell from the dairy farm as there is a chemical (biodegradable) which is used to slow down the release of gases into air.The dairy farm is going to be half a kilometre away from the property anyway so no chance of sleepless nights due to the smell from the farm and if by anychance it creates a problem I will switch the biogas idea with LPG which is supplied in cylinders of 35kg each and can last up to a few days if I run an electricity generator but that defeats the green idea which inspired me in the first place so that will be the last option.
If you are planning to do something similar I can provide you with some helpful information as I have been researching for the last 2 years now. feel free to leave your comments..
