Cong wants farmers to be ambassadors for clean fuel
Thursday, 14/05/2015
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Chandigarh : Senior Congress leader and Kapurthala MLA Rana Gurjeet Singh on Wednesday urged Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia to make farmers the ambassadors for promoting and producing solar energy in the state. Referring to Majithia’s statement, saying the students will be made the energy ambassadors, Rana reiterated his proposal that the farmers should be encouraged to produce solar energy.
He said the farmers cannot only produce solar energy for their own consumption, but they can supply the extra energy they generate to the PSPCL and earn good amount of money. The senior Congress leader pointed out that the government was already encouraging private entrepreneurs to produce solar energy and it could extend the benefits to the farmers as well. “This way we can make an entrepreneur out of every farmer and he will not be dependent on anyone,” he remarked.
Rana has consistently been maintaining that the farmers can easily be involved in the generation of solar energy and the existing PSPCL infrastructure, by which farmers are supplied electricity, could be used for the same. He has also sought time from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to present his plan.
