Village Vajanapur in Gangapur taluka, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district, is set to receive a 6-metre octagonal pole solar high mast along with a solar street light in its Anusuchit Jati Wasti тАФ the Scheduled Caste settlement area of the village.
The funding route
The work is sanctioned under the Scheduled Caste and Navbouddha Locality Development Programme (рдЕрдиреБрд╕реВрдЪрд┐рдд рдЬрд╛рддреА рд╡ рдирд╡рдмреМрджреНрдз рд╡рд╕реНрддреА рд╕реБрдзрд╛рд░ рдпреЛрдЬрдирд╛) for financial year 2025-26 тАФ a long-running state scheme that funds civic infrastructure, including internal roads, drainage, community halls and lighting, specifically within SC and Navbouddha wastis that sit administratively separate from a village's general-purpose development funds.
Why a high mast for one settlement
A 6-metre high mast is on the smaller end of the high mast category тАФ tall enough to throw light across a settlement's common ground or approach road junction without needing a cluster of individual poles, which keeps both the installation footprint and the long-term maintenance load lower for a single-wasti scale project.
Context within the district
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district has been running a steady stream of these wasti-level solar lighting works through 2026, following the same pattern already seen at the district's Nashik-adjacent municipal projects: solar-first for standalone settlements without reliable grid access, grid-tied LED retrofits for areas already wired into the municipal network.
