The Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources (MNES) has agreed to fund the project for the world's first solar crematorium. The project ran into rough weather because of the skyrocketing cost of the solar concentrator that would reflect the sun's rays on a specially constructed coffin, and the last minute doubts over whether one contractor would be enough to burn a body completely. The project was planned by Teethal's Satya Saibaba Trust (SST) at Valsad, in south Gujarat.