But when it neared completion, locals lacked the technical education and skills to bag the relatively few jobs available when the park started running.The men started to leave home again.“We could tell one camel from another just from their footprint or find our cows from the sound of the bells tied around their necks – but what do I do with these skills now?” asked village elder Mohammad Sujawal Mehr.“Big companies surround us, but only a few of our men got jobs there,” he said, noting that even a security guard’s post at the solar park requires schooling up to tenth grade.
Coal mining and power currently employs an estimated 3.6 million people in India and renewable energy only about 112,000, with solar accounting for 86,000 of those jobs.
Researchers estimate this sunrise sector could create more than 3 million green jobs by 2030 in solar and wind power.
But so far…
India’s solar energy boom fuels local struggle for green justice | News | Eco-Business
