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World Business: Rahul Bajaj Interview 19/09/08
World Business: The Bajaj Group is one of Indias top ten companies, with business interests ranging from steel production to finance, insurance and automobiles. Under the leadership of Rahul Bajaj, turnover of Bajaj Auto alone has grown more than a thousand fold to 2.3 billion dollars. He is one of Indias leading industrial figures and has added politics to the mix. In our new Peer to Peer segment, business leader, Artoc Group chairman and managing director M. Shafik Gabr sat down with him, …
Grameen Shakti, Bangladesh, Micro-finance solar home systems
www.ashdenawards.org Grameen Shakti won an Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy in 2006. To find out more visit the link above and check out the Ashden Awards Blog ashdenawards.blogspot.com Grameen Shakti has sold and installed over 65000 solar home-systems (SHS) in rural Bangladesh, and brought major benefits to its users. Nearly 70% of households in Bangladesh are not connected to the electricity grid and depend on kerosene for lighting. This includes most rural areas and extends as far as …
