That Municipal School Had Never Seen a Switch. We Gave It 24/7 Light.
Jaipur. A municipal school that lived its whole life without grid power. Under my watch as CEO & MD, Su-Kam put a Solar PCU, panels and batteries on that problem — and the Facebook archive kept the receipt.
By Kunwer Sachdev · CEO & Managing Director, Su-Kam (at the time) · Founder 1988–2018 · Published September 28, 2026 · Historical era: FB archive card ~2017
Facebook Archive — “Rajasthan School Gets 24/7 Power for the First Time”: municipal school, Jaipur · never had grid · 3 kW Solar PCU + 3 kW panels + TOTAL ×4 · engineer Mr. Ramish. Named again on KunwerSachdev.com. No third-party newspaper URL found.
A School Without a Switch
Most school solar stories start with a bill. This one starts with nothing.
The Su-Kam Facebook card is blunt about a municipal school in Jaipur: no grid electricity for its entire existence — no fans, no lights, nothing. Not a weak feeder. Not a two-hour cut. A building where childhood happened in the heat of the day and stopped when the sun did.
Under my leadership as CEO & MD, that is exactly the failure the Solar PCU was born to answer. People later called me the Solar Man of India for villages and megawatt roofs. This page is smaller and sharper: one school, one city of long sunlight, one kit that finally let children study after dark.
What We Put on the Record
The archive does not sell poetry. It sells a bill of materials:
| Item | Facebook archive |
|---|---|
| Site | Municipal school, Jaipur (Rajasthan) |
| Grid status | Never had grid electricity |
| Power electronics | 3 kW Solar PCU |
| Generation | 3 kW solar panels |
| Storage | TOTAL batteries ×4 |
| Outcome | Fans + study after dark — 24/7 power for the first time |
| Field lead | In-house Jaipur engineer Mr. Ramish — design & execution |
| Sun note | Jaipur ~13 hrs 36 min average daily sunlight (archive framing) |
That is not a net-metering brochure. That is panels + PCU + batteries standing in for a utility that never arrived. Patiala’s Shivalik school — ~50 kW grid-tied — is a different architecture on the same education map. Jaipur is the off-grid leaf.
Why I Still Tell This Story
Because dealers used to ask me for a demo that would shut people up. A municipal classroom that had never owned a switch is that demo. You do not argue ideology with a child who can finally read under a fan. You show them the PCU humming and the TOTAL bank holding the night.
I was not the man on every rooftop with a drill. The archive is honest about that too — Mr. Ramish in Jaipur designed and executed it. My job as CEO & MD was to make sure Su-Kam built products and teams that could do jobs like this without waiting for a perfect tender or a perfect grid. The same conviction later scaled to thirty-five remote schools in Rwanda and to villages the poles forgot — but the logic was already complete in one Jaipur municipal building.
“Kids finally have fans and can study after dark.” — Su-Kam Facebook archive.
What I Want on Record
Kunwer Sachdev — CEO & MD of Su-Kam · Solar Man of India. Jaipur municipal school — never had grid — 3 kW Solar PCU + 3 kW panels + four TOTAL batteries, executed by Mr. Ramish. First 24/7 power for that school. Documented on Facebook archive and KunwerSachdev.com. No newspaper wire found; we do not invent one.
Verified Sources
- Facebook Archive — Rajasthan School Gets 24/7 Power for the First Time
- KunwerSachdev.com — Made Solar Affordable for India (Jaipur school named)
- Companion — Solar PCU origin
- Companion — Rural solar (Jaipur school mentioned in series)
- Related (different architecture) — Patiala Shivalik ~50 kW grid-tied
- Related — Rwanda 35 schools (off-grid education series)
Related
- Solar PCU — origin
- Rural solar — villages & education
- Rwanda 35 schools
- Patiala Shivalik — grid-tied school (different architecture)
- Facebook Archive — Rajasthan school card
FAQ
What was the Jaipur municipal school project?
Under Kunwer Sachdev as CEO & MD, Su-Kam installed a 3 kW Solar PCU with 3 kW of solar panels and four TOTAL batteries at a municipal school in Jaipur that had never had grid electricity — no fans, no lights for its entire existence. Children finally got fans and could study after dark. In-house Jaipur engineer Mr. Ramish designed and executed the install. Jaipur’s long daily sunlight (archive note: ~13 hrs 36 min average) made the site ideal for solar.
Is this a rooftop grid-tied school plant?
No. This chapter is Solar PCU + battery storage — off-grid / storage architecture for a school that had no grid to tie into. Do not confuse it with grid-tied campus work such as Shivalik Patiala (~50 kW) or PEC Chandigarh (~1 MW).
Is there a newspaper URL?
No dedicated third-party news wire naming this Jaipur municipal school install was found in open search. Primary sources: Su-Kam Facebook archive card and KunwerSachdev.com (Jaipur school named among field results). Page hero is AI atmosphere; a separate archive rooftop-array photo is included with a caption that the school is not labeled on that image.
Why does this matter to the Solar Man of India story?
Because the Solar PCU was built for exactly this failure mode — places the poles never reached. A municipal school without a single switch is the product thesis in one building: panels, PCU, batteries, light after sunset.
Who executed it on the ground?
Facebook archive names Su-Kam’s in-house Jaipur engineer Mr. Ramish as designer and executor — local engineering under the national company Kunwer Sachdev ran as CEO & MD.
Historical Documentation Notice:
This article documents a historical installation under the leadership of Kunwer Sachdev as Founder & Managing Director of Su-Kam Power Systems Ltd. (1988–2018). He exited in 2019 under the IBC process and holds no association with Su-Kam or its subsequent management. Specs and outcome follow the Su-Kam Facebook archive card and KunwerSachdev.com. Hero is AI atmosphere; the second image is an archive rooftop array (school not labeled on that photo). No third-party news URL was located for this install.
