The Hindu Named It in the Pipeline. The Company Blog Named the Hospital.
Parakala Lalitha Nursing Home, Warangal. 10 kW rooftop. The same April 2013 week the dailies wrote the petrol pumps.
By Kunwer Sachdev · Founder & Managing Director, 1988–2018 · Published 11 September 2026 · Historical era: April 2013
Primary source: recovered company blog, 10 kW Warangal archive (Wayback, 16 April 2013). Sister story: Episode 4 — AP petrol pumps.
1. What the recovered blog actually said
By Kunwer Sachdev (Founder & Managing Director, 1988–2018)
The Hindu’s April 2013 petrol-pump package, in the sidebar, named work still coming: a rooftop solar project for a hospital in Warangal. The paper printed it as 10 kV. That is the cutting. I do not tidy the journalist’s unit.
Eleven days before that Facebook collage went up, the company blog of 16 April 2013 had already named the site. From that post, not from memory: Su-Kam installed a rooftop solar system in Andhra Pradesh, capacity 10 kW, at Parakala Lalitha Nursing Home in Warangal. It ran the hospital load — uninterrupted power, and clean power from the sun. That is the whole technical record. No PCU model. No battery count. No claim I stood in Parkal with a reporter.
Parkal (Parakala) is now in Telangana. In 2013 it was still Andhra Pradesh. The recovered post is filed under Personal Experience on blog.su-kam.com. I was MD. The rooftop line was the product line I had built. The hospital was one more place where a generator was the expensive answer and solar was the one that could sit on the roof.
Why a hospital was a different problem
A petrol pump fails in lost litres. A hospital fails in the dark. The recovered post does not list the wards. It says the system ran the hospital load. That is enough. Later industry copy — including a Saur Energy note on our hospital and village work — put solar into more than ninety hospitals in the North-East after Tripura, where deliveries had been in candlelight. Warangal is not that Tripura programme. Warangal is the named 10 kW roof in the 2013 Andhra record.
Related Su-Kam training film — 10 kW off-grid rooftop. Not a Warangal site video.
2. Ground record from the 16 April 2013 post
| Parameter | From the recovered company blog |
|---|---|
| Company blog | 16 April 2013 — 10 KW Solar Powered System installed in Warangal, Andhra Pradesh |
| Site named | Parakala Lalitha Nursing Home, Warangal |
| Capacity | 10 kW rooftop |
| What it ran | Hospital load — uninterrupted power; clean solar |
| Hindu sidebar (same week) | Warangal hospital rooftop named as 10 kV, still in the pipeline |
| Sister story | Kodad / Shadnagar petrol pumps, April 2013 |
3. Hub
- Episode 8 — Anantnag Sub District Hospital, Brainy Eco
- Episode 9 — Kannauj 250 kW mini-grid, Dr. Kalam, 7 July 2015
- Episode 4 — AP 2013 petrol pumps (same Hindu box)
- Recovered Warangal archive page
- Facebook Archive
- Episode 2 — Assam Rifles
Historical Documentation Notice:
This article documents a historical installation from the tenure 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. Site name and 10 kW are taken from the recovered 16 April 2013 company blog. The Hindu’s “10 kV / in pipeline” line is quoted as printed.
References & Sources
- Recovered Su-Kam archive — Warangal 10 kW hospital
- Wayback — original blog.su-kam.com post (16 April 2013 / snapshot 23 September 2017)
- Episode 4 — Andhra Pradesh solar petrol pumps, April 2013 (same Hindu package)
- Saur Energy — Su-Kam hospital and solar-village programme
- Lalitha Nursing Home, Parkal — hospital directory (Medindia)
- Facebook Archive — AP petrol-pump press collage that named the Warangal hospital
- Solar blogs — solarmanofindia.com