The energy transition could make India even more unequal
Rich Indian states are sunny and windy, while poor ones have lots of coal | Asia
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Rich Indian states are sunny and windy, while poor ones have lots of coal | Asia
The recent appointment of Sudhansh Pant, 1991 batch IAS officer as Rajasthan chief secretary and giving another extension to Uttar Pradesh CS DS Mishra suggests a trend that chief secretaries of BJP-ruled states being picked mostly from the secretaries posted in Union government.
Green industrial policy should not be the exclusive privilege of historically well-endowed states. Otherwise, the energy transition will simply be yet another drain of resources from India’s least developed to its most developed regions.
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Kolkata Port Trust official confirms that the state now wants to return the land in lieu of the money it paid