Aim to reduce India’s carbon footprint by 30-35 pc, raise share of natural gas 4 times : PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday announced that the country was moving forward with the goal of reducing its carbon footprint by 30-35 per cent and efforts were being made to increase the share of natural gas in energy needs by four times in this decade.

Work is on to double the oil refining capacity in the next five years. Energy security-related startup ecosystem was being strengthened and a fund has been created for students and professionals, he said at the eighth Convocation of Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University in Gandhinagar.

He laid the foundation stone of ‘45 MW Production Plant of Mono-crystalline Solar PhotoVoltaic Panel’ and ‘Centre of Excellence on Water Technology’. He also inaugurated ‘Innovation and Incubation Centre – Technology Business Incubation’, ‘Translational Research Centre’ and ‘Sports Complex’ at the University.

Addressing the students, the prime minister said, “It was not easy to graduate at a time when the world was facing such a big crisis. But your abilities are much bigger than these challenges.”
He added that students are entering the industry at a time when due to pandemic, major changes are taking place in the energy sector across the world.

Modi asked the students to have purpose in life and stressed that it’s not that successful people don’t have problems, but the one who accepts challenges, confronts them, defeats them, solves problems, only succeeds.

The prime minister urged the students to live for the country and join the movement of Atmanirbhar Bharat and develop a sense of responsibility.