To make Punjab more sufficient and efficient in the new and renewable energy sector, Punjab’s newly-appointed Minister in-charge Aman Arora on Tuesday said that the Government would initiate measures on a comprehensive scale besides striving steadfastly to make the State surplus in this vital sphere.
Arora, while chairing the first of the Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) as the New and Renewable Energy Minister, said that the State Government is fully committed to create an atmosphere congenial to environment apart from boosting the modern sources of energy aided by the conventional ones.
The Minister directed the officers to focus upon setting up projects related to various new sources of energy such as solar, biomass, hydel and ensuring their publicizing to the optimum level.
Calling pollution a global problem, the Minister emphasized that it is the collective responsibility of all of us to leave a clean and pollution-free environment for posterity for which the new sources of energy would be harnessed thus moving ahead from the conventional sources. “Even the United Nations is laying emphasis on the issue and all countries are concentrating their energies on it,” he added.
The Minister directed the departmental officers to explore ways for establishing new projects connected with new and renewable energy and prepare a detailed report in this regard.