164 Copyright © All rights are reserved by Saurabh Pathak. Advances in Robotics & Mechanical Engineering Mini Review Assessment of On-Grid and Off-Grid Electrification in Remote Villages of Chhattisgarh Saurabh Pathak 1,2 * and Rajni Verma 1,3 1 School of Engineering, RMIT University, Australia 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia 3 School of Physics, The University of Melbourne, Australia *Corresponding author: School of Engineering, RMIT University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010 Australia Received: March 17, 2020 Published: June 09, 2020 Introduction Electricity is one of the most basic need of the population in recent times and it significantly affects the quality of life. Electricity can transform the rural areas in many ways. Availability of electricity in rural areas will reduce the manual workload for food processing and longer working hours in the households, end of smoky households etc. It will yield direct positive impact at household, individual and community level. Electrifying a remote village household can significantly lower the energy expenditures made on kerosene and fuels which can be substituted by straight electricity admittance. Further, it provides the family living in the household with more working time that eventually fallouts in improving the overall quality of life and productivity of each household [1]. Although, the casual relationship between the electricity and quality of life has not been laid down, but it has been long argued based on the available literature that it significantly affects the quality of life both economically and productivity wise. So, the focused my present work is to understand the effect of electrification on the ruler masses of the Chhattisgarh. We have surveyed 17 villages in remote areas of Chhattisgarh by visiting 3 villages Dhanora, Gampur and Pinkonda in person and in rest of the 14 villages by contacting the school teachers and local peoples through telephonic conversation. So, this work explains in detail the current situation of these villages how solar power in the villages is improved and further discuss the possibility of low maintenance wind energy to meet the off-grid requirement for these village [2, 3]. Alternatively, another possible solution to meet the need of the country is through wind energy. We have developed a magnetic fluid-based power generator which is capable of working at low wind speed and has the potential for meeting the need of the small electricity loads in the villages. This device can generate enough electricity for a small household needs. In all, the overall aim to analyze the importance of electricity and its impact on the livelihood of the households has been done satisfactory in these villages. Magnetic fluid-based energy generator has the potential to provide the solution to the current electrification needs of the remote villages in India [4-9]. ISSN: 2643-6736 DOI: 10.32474/ARME.2020.02.000142 Abstract In this work, electrification scenario of the state of Chhattisgarh has been presented, which is the 10th largest state of India with a total population 25 million has total 19567 villages and 80% of the population lives in rural areas. Herein, we have bestowing 17 out of 133 villages in which electrification has been done in 2017 and 2018. All these villages are in the region Dantewada and Bijapur. These two regions consist most remote villages of the state and the awareness about, how electricity will help them in improving their lifestyle is quite less. The focus of the present work is aligned to investigate the electricity connectivity scenario of these remote villages. Further, alternative novel mechanism of the remote village electrification using magnetic fluid-based energy harvesting has been proposed which can eventually solves the major issues in remote village electrification.