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Successful installation of solar mini-grids in three villages has prompted electricity-starved Nagaland to set up similar solar grids to light up 1,000 villages. Smart Power India (SPI), a subsidiary of Rockefeller Foundation in association with the Nagaland government, GIZ, Mithun Rural Development Foundation (MRDF), and National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has taken up a project to set up solar mini-grids in 1,000 villages not only to light up houses but to help villagers in their livelihood activities. The objective of this programme is to supplement and strengthen the supply of electricity in remote villages to enable micro-enterprises to thrive, new businesses to be set up, improve public infrastructure (streetlights, schools and health centres), trigger economic growth and increase personal incomes in the villages.