With the latest serial blast in Jaipur, leaving 60 innocent dead, while injuring 150, it seem terrorists are now targeting smaller town instead of metro cities.

7 Blasts took off at crowded places in a span of 12 minutes. According to sources the intensity of the blast was low, and RDX usage has been ruled out. The home ministry sources suspect Bangladesh-based Harkut-ul-Jehadi Islami to be behind the blasts.

The serial blast took place within a two km radius. The bombs went off at the Hanuman temple, Manas Chowk , Johari Bazar, Badi Choupal, Tripolia Bazar and Choti Choupal. All the places were packed with people when the blast occurred. It is feared the toll may go up further. Blood splattered every where and some victims thrown several feet up.

Being a Tuesday, the hanuman temple at Tripolia bazaar was flooded with devotees.

RAF (Rapid action force) has been deployed and security beefed up. Securities have been increased in major cities including Delhi and Mumbai.

The menace of terrorism is here to stay, with different targets, different places, unless the Government takes bold steps to curb terrorism and its sponsors.

One of the blasts took place near our shop in tripolia bazar. the blast shattered our & many shop lights and my mamaji (uncle) had to run for his life after watching 3 dead instantly in front of him. Because the car park is behind the main market, he had to rush for his car; crossing the deadly path. We in dubai are so scared and concerned for the safety of our parents in Jaipur. Despite taking rapid actions in finding those behind the blast, the state government shamefully announced a price sum for the dead & injured. Insult to the injury is the fact that authorities were beforehand warned about the possible attack but no action was taken. It was terrifying listening the scary voice of my parents on phone :(:( we need an answer from the Indian government- Praveen Moolchandani - Dubai (Rooted in Jaipur)

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While greed is infectious, it hasn’t touched Harish Hande. Unlike many entrepreneurs, Hande didn’t dream of great wealth, luxury or power as he built SELCO India , a rural solar energy company .

At a time when his fellow Indian Institute of Technology engineering alumni were drifting aimlessly into the domestic IT industry, Hande stayed focused on his major: energy engineering. After earning a Ph.D. in the specialization from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Hande headed back home in 1993 to provide reliable, clean energy to unelectrified areas of rural India.

“We believe that in anybody’s daily life, reliable energy like solar electricity or solar lighting, can lead to a better quality of life," Hande says.

SELCO, short for Solar Electric Light Co., sells small-scale, modular solar photovoltaic systems to households and businesses in villages in the southern Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.

He started small, buying one solar-lighting system with $300 he had left over in scholarship money.

To find workers to do installations on a larger scale, he went to village TV stores in Karnataka. Hande described what he was doing, and asked if anyone was interested. They were, since many of them didn’t have electricity in their homes, relying on candles and kerosene lamps for light after sundown. This gave him confidence that he could build a team and that there was a market for what he wanted to do.

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Since most rural Indians are poor and can’t afford to pay for SELCO’s systems out of pocket, Hande needed to obtain bank financing. In late 1996 he convinced Malaprabha Grameen Bank in Karnataka to finance 100 solar-lighting systems, “probably because they were getting fed up with me more than anything else,” Hande jokes.

He then leveraged the bank’s backing to get other banks to finance more solar-lighting systems. “That was our biggest code to crack, since our entire model is based on banks providing the financing,” Hande says.

In addition to providing a source of safe, clean lighting to rural people, SELCO also helps them generate much-needed income. With light after dark, they can keep shops open later and stay up at home working on crafts. Some of his customers told Hande they can now make two to three baskets a night, selling them for 30 rupees each.

This gave Hande the idea to create a business plan for a tribal community in Karnataka, with four-year bank loans under which they would pay for their solar-lighting systems with the proceeds of basket sales.

So far, SELCO has installed close to 100,000 solar-lighting systems, and in the process, it has brought light to people who were considered too poor to be part of the capitalist system.

I use the term "light" both literally and metaphorically, since Hande’s thinking went far beyond solar lighting system installations. What he did was innovate at a much deeper level by connecting energy services to income generation.

Sadly, Hande says few of his fellow Indian Institute of Technology energy engineering alumni are working in alternative energy. “When I went back to IIT last year, all 26 seats in energy engineering went to [work in] software," he says. "There is an extreme shortage of energy engineers.”

I recently wrote an open letter to IIT students asking them to look beyond software–and maybe do something electrifying, following Hande’s example.

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Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley . She has founded three companies and writes a business blog, Sramana Mitra on Strategy. She has a master’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Artical is from Forbes.com