Centre targets to generate 1 lakh MW of solar power by 2022 : Piyus Goyal
Addressing a press conference held in the capital city of Assam, the union minister said, "Our mission to provide power in 24 hours to every household."
"We looks into more generation of renewable energy, " Goyal said.
He further said that, the union government will install 40 MW solar power plant in Assam and the state government has agreed to allocate 400 bighas land for the plant.
On other hand, the union minister said that, the government will restart the construction work of 2000 MW Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric project after come out the final report of expert committee.
"Centre will work with the government and the people, organizations of Assam to resolve all issues related to Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project in the best interest of all concerned," Piyus Goyal said.
On Thursday, the union minister said in the inaugural session of the Conference of Power, Renewable Energy and Mines held in Guwahati that, the Centre had decided allocation of Rs 10,000 cr in the power sector of the eight North East States including Sikkim.
"The Union Government has undertaken initiatives in the NE region for speedy implementation of power projects and urging to the state governments to give their extend support for generating more power, " Goyal said.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
Support Our Journalism
We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism
IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.
Support objective journalism for a small contribution.
