In her village of Komalia, the fog swirls so thick at 7 a.m. that Akansha Singh can see no more than 15 meters ahead. But the 20-year-old is already cycling to her workplace, 9 kilometers away.
Halfway there she stops for two hours at a computer training center, where she is learning internet skills. Then she is off again, and by 10 a.m. reaches the small garment manufacturing plant where she stitches women's clothing for high-end brands on state-of-the-art electric sewing machines.
Solar energy powers most of her day — the training center and the 25-woman garment factory run on solar minigrid electricity — and clean power has given her personal choice as well, she said.