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 — the Scheduled Caste settlement area of the village.
The funding route
The work is sanctioned under the Scheduled Caste and Navbouddha Locality Development Programme (अनुसूचित जाती व नवबौद्ध वस्ती सुधार योजना) for financial year 2025-26 — 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 — 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.
