As implausible as it sounds, cattle poop can generate the electric power to light up thousands of households in Punjab, which has a livestock population of five and a half million buffalos and 1.2 million cows. They produce about 20 million kg of animal dung per day, which has the potential of producing biogas that can help to ease the acute power crisis that has afflicted the state for the past many years. A pilot project to produce power through biogas, funded by the Punjab government and World Bank aid, is already underway at Guru Angad Dev Veterinary & Animal Sciences University. Experts feel the concept could change the present power scenario in the state. Talking to The Tribune, Puneet Malhotra, dairy manager, GADVASU, said: "The World Bank is already financing similar projects in various European countries including Sweden, where a biogas is being used for power generation. What we need is technical support from institutes like the IITs