PM Modi to speak on Green Growth Tomorrow

 

The Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi would address energy industry stakeholders in the first post-budget webinar on green growth tomorrow, 23rd February 2023, around 10 a.m. Tomorrow’s webinar organized by the government is the first in a series of 12 post-budget webinars planned by the government seeking suggestions on the effective implementation of initiatives announced in the recent budget, the Ministry of Power said in a release.

The webinar will have six breakout sessions covering both energy and non-energy components of green growth. The webinar will be held under the supervision of the Ministry of Power. Union ministers, secretaries from the ministry, stakeholders from various state governments, industry, academia, research institutions, etc. would attend this webinar. academia, research institutions, etc. would attend this webinar.

Green growth is one of the seven top priorities of the Union Budget 2023-24 for ushering in the country's green industrial and economic transition, environment-friendly agriculture, and sustainable energy. It will also generate a large number of green jobs. The Union Budget has envisaged a number of projects and initiatives spread across various sectors and ministries viz. Green Hydrogen Mission, Energy Transition, Energy Storage Projects, Renewable Energy Evacuation, Green Credit Program, PM-PRANAM, GOBARdhan Scheme, Bhartiya Prakritik Kheti Bio-Input Resource Centres, MISHTI, Amrit Dharohar, Coastal Shipping, and Vehicle Replacement.

Each post-budget webinar will have three sessions. It will start with a plenary opening session which the prime minister would address. This session will be followed by separate breakout sessions on various themes which will take place in parallel. Finally, the ideas from the breakout sessions would be presented during the plenary concluding session. Based on inputs received during the webinar, concerned ministries would prepare a time-bound action plan for the implementation of budget announcements.