'Tuki-free country' (#258) on the mission of Babu Raja Shrestha to light up the country with solar power is incomplete without the acknowledgement of awards won by the Centre for Renewable Energy (CRE) at the World Bank's 'Lau na abata kehi garaun' competition and also at the global competition for the 'Light for All' program based on solar tukis. CRE has been awarded a UNDP project under the Small Grants Program of the Global Environment Facility. Such recognition of the dream spearheaded by Babu Raja and his colleagues at CRE should allow them to realise their dream of bringing the light of development to rural Nepalis. Babu Raja deserves every recognition he can get at the national level so that other visionaries like him also get inspired rather than leaving the country at the first available opportunity.

Adarsha Tuladhar,
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