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R. K. Singh leads Indian Delegation in the IEA Ministerial, Paris

| | Nov 09, 2017, at 02:36 am


New Delhi, Nov 8 (IBNS): Union Minister of State (IC) for Power and New & Renewable Energy Raj Kumar Singh led the Indian delegation in the International Energy Agency (IEA) Ministerial, being held in Paris.

The Minister emphasised the importance of clean energy and assured achievement of 175GW of renewable target of India while addressing the Plenary Session on Driving the Transitions to Clean Energy.

At the Ministerial, India signed joint work programmes with IEA and other key members of the IEA Family i.e. Brazil, Chile, India, Indonesia and Thailand. The event focusses on energy security, clean energy technology and government-industry dialogue on investment and digitalization, which would provide major opportunities for efficiency gains in the energy sector in the future, read a government statement.

On the side-lines of the IEA Ministerial, the Minister had a delegate level discussion with the French Minister of State for Ecological and Inclusive Transition, Brune Poirson. Shri Singh also had a very fruitful discussion on various issues of Power and New & Renewable Energy with the US Secretary of Energy, James Richard Perry.

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