Fatehgram (Uttaranchal): This story starts in 1986 when a 29-year-old botany professor decided to revive a dying traditional device - the gharaat that had once been used way back in the seventh century for grinding grain. With a few simple changes Anil Joshi used the old grain miller for producing almost five to 10 KW of hydro electricity. Joshi did indeed change the lives of the people of not just Fatehgram, but also that of over a 1,000 villages. "We have gone to more than 1,000 villages and that means that more than 1.5 lakh people. We have directly reached through the water mills and since the water mill is the initial programme and most of the states are promoting the water mills by that terms we have more than 25,000 villages we have already reached,” says Joshi. And it did not stop with the gharaats Joshi is also the mind behind Shree Dan. The gharaat now also powers the villagers favourite time pass. Just one of the many ways that Joshi has brought the modern world closer to the villages of Uttaranchal and Jammu and Kashmir. He now wants to take this gharaat revolution to the North East and across the border to China.