Agartala, Jan. 19 -- Tripura Renewable Energy Development Agency (TREDA) was conferred the Silver Medal for 2025 for its outstanding contribution to national welfare through the installation of solar-powered microgrid projects in remote tribal regions.
The award recognises TREDA's transformative work in some of the most inaccessible and hilly tribal areas of India's North Eastern region, where conventional electricity infrastructure is either economically unviable or technologically impractical.
For decades, these regions have struggled with irregular or non-existent power supply, severely affecting education, healthcare, livelihoods and overall quality of life.
Under the PM-DEVINE scheme of the Central Government, implemented in partner...