Million Solar Urja Lamp Programme: A supply chain experience

Many technological solutions for rural areas, even after successful demonstrations, have not been able to reach the intended beneficiaries at the scale and speed required to address their underlying problem. The Million Soul Urja Lamp Program (MSP) is an effort to take solar lamps to rural India to address their primary energy needs, through localization and skill development. This paper outlines the supply chain and operational challenges in achieving scale and speed, and summarizes the performance of this project from an operations perspective.