Venkaiah Naidu urges Central, State governments to opt for solar power for buildings

The Vice President hailed JIPMER for their solar power initiatives while inaugurating a rooftop power plant in the college premises.

Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday urged the Central and State governments and administrations of union territories to patronise and adopt rooftop solar power facilities. He suggested that it could be made mandatory. “Every Central, State government and union territory government’s building should have rooftop solar power plant. Public sector undertakings should also have the rooftop solar power plant,” he said. He was speaking after inaugurating a 1.5 mw rooftop solar power plant installed at a cost of ₹ 7.67 crore in the centrally administered JIPMER medical college in Puducherry.