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PM: Urgent need to harness solar energy

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Published : Dec 22, 2015, 5:09 am IST
Updated : Dec 22, 2015, 5:09 am IST

Terming the negative impact of environment pollution as a challenge, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said there is a need to harness solar energy.

The convicts who were awarded the death sentence in the gangrape-murder of a Nepalese woman. 	— PTI
 The convicts who were awarded the death sentence in the gangrape-murder of a Nepalese woman. — PTI

Terming the negative impact of environment pollution as a challenge, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said there is a need to harness solar energy.

“Discussions of environment have been taking for long, but for the last few years, its negative impact has been felt on normal human lives... There is a challenge before mankind to find a solution to this problem,” PM Modi said at an event where he flagged off an electric bus, gifted by the road transport and highways ministry to Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, to ferry legislators at Parliament.

Referring to the recent COP-21 summit in Paris, Mr Modi highlighted two significant initiatives — Mission Innovation launched jointly by the US, France and India, with the help of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, on development of green technologies and the creation of the International Solar Alliance of countries with abundant sunlight. The headquarters of this alliance will be in Delhi, the Prime Minister said.

“There are 122 nations which get the benefit of sunray for more than 300 days in a year. With India’s initiative, an organisation of such nations has been formed,” Mr Modi said.

Resolutions in Paris by world leaders include work on innovation to get fossil fuel-free energy, Mr Modi added.

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