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Solar amplifier –

In rural areas there is a problem of load shedding, sometimes there is no
electricity at the time of aeration. Later, the electricity board closed the meter due to

delay in paying the electricity bill for one time. The rituals that aid the development
of speech and leadership should be followed as usual. We need a mic and amplifier to

reach the last child in the queue, to run it without electricity and to run a solar
amplifier on a solar plate. Now we have no worries even though the lightning is gone
at a time of crisis. Troubled by persistent power cuts that disrupted the school

routine, created an indigenous solar-powered amplifier out of scrap. Now, load
shedding does not bother us and the half-an-hour morning assembly at the school

comprising value education, prayers and academic conduct for the day, goes
onsmoothly.
For most days of the week, electricity was a problem in the entire area. "So we

have decided to use the solar kit which has solar panels of 6 watts. To address a group
of 335 students during the most important part of the school, the morning assembly,

power cuts increasingly created trouble for us. So we took up this challenge and
decided to provide some solution. A scrap amplifier lying unused in the storeroom of

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