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Ukraine war has hit I ndi a’s

bid
to move away from coal: FM
‘Price of natural gas — a transition fuel — has gone up and is in short supply’
Sriram Lakshman
Washington DC
lack of climate fnance from
developed countries and
India’s transition away asked for $1 trillion in cli-
from coal as a fuel will be mate fnancing over the
hampered by the Russia- current decade, in order to
Ukraine war, according to meet its climate commit-
Finance Minister Nirmala ments.
Sitharaman.
“One calculation which I Climate goals
think we had in our mind Prime Minister Narendra
was that the transition Modi announced on No-
[away from coal] ... will be vember 2 that India would
enabled my natural gas,” have a renewable energy
Ms. Sitharaman said in Power point: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman with IMF target of 500 GW by 2030
Washington DC, at a round- Managing Director K. Georgieva in Washington. PTI and meet 50% of its energy *

table organised by the At- needs from renewable

lantic Council, a think-tank. dioxide relative to natural “The dependence on sources, by then. It would
However, the price of gas, on a kilogram-to-kilo- coal, and the speed with achieve net zero emissions
crude has gone up due to gram basis. which we want to get out of by 2070, as per Mr. Modi.
the situation in Europe, as it, will now be challenged,” “Our commitments to re-
has the price of natural gas U.S. pressure she said, adding that, ho- fashion our energy basket
— a “transition fuel” for In- India has come under pres- wever, India’s commitment remains intact,” Ms. Sitha-
dia — in addition to it being sure from the U.S. to not in- with regard to renewable raman said, adding that Mr.
in short supply, said Ms. crease import of energy energy would be met. Modi’s commitments at
Sitharaman, who is in from Russia, which has At the UN Climate COP26 are being “taken se-
Washington D.C. for the been sanctioned by Europe Change Conference (the riously” by India, which is
World Bank International and the U.S. for its invasion 26th Conference of Parties - moving forward on them.
Monetary Fund (IMF) of Ukraine. Approximately COP26), held in Glasgow India’s non-fossil energy ca-
spring meetings. 1-2% of India’s energy im- last November, countries pacity would reach 500 GW
Almost all of the world’s ports come from Russia, as agreed, after pressure from by 2030; it will meet 50% of
energy needs are met by per ofcial U.S. data, and India and China, to “phase its electricity requirements
coal, oil and natural gas, the government has begun down” rather than “phase with renewable energy by
but coal releases almost buying oil from Moscow at out” the use of coal. India 2030 and achieve net zero
twice the amount of carbon a discounted price. also increased its focus on a emissions by 2070.

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‘If freebie culture Abduction drama

persists, India may by family to evade
face Sri Lanka’s fate’ fne ends in Odisha
Check subsidies: NITI Aayog member
Case kept police on toes for 4 years
Vikas Dhoot
NEW DELHI Satyasundar Barik
India could end up facing a BHUBANESWAR

Sri Lanka-type economic A family in Odisha’s

crisis if it doesn’t shun the Khordha district which
“culture of freebies” and hatched an elaborate fake
subsidies in sectors like abduction drama of its
agriculture, NITI Aayog own members to evade a
member Ramesh Chand fne imposed by a village
has warned. committee has been ‘res-
The “mind-boggling” cued’ by the police,
support measures for farm- Ramesh Chand bringing an end to the
ers had made agriculture four-year-old case.
extremely dependent on buying anything at MSP, the In 2018, the Harbaradi The Behera family outside
such crutches, he said at economic cost comes to be village committee issued the Tangi police station.
the annual day function of 30%-35% more than the a diktat that no one from *
SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
the Delhi School of Eco- MSP and the government is the village should go fsh-
nomics on Tuesday. not able to dispose the pro- ing in the Chilika Lake. found with the duo.
“Our policies and sup- duce even at the MSP. This However, Arun Behera, “We remained on our
port to agriculture and ma- means that to pay ₹100 to 53, and his son Manas, toes for four years to res-
ny other sectors are going the farmer, it costs ₹35 to 25, ignored it and went to cue the two as the wo-
in a direction that if we do the government,” he noted, catch fsh. man had moved the
not put a check on it, I A procurement of ₹3 lakh The committee alleg- OHRC and HC,” said Ma-
think a day is not far when crore thus entailed some edly imposed a fne of nas Barik, sub-divisional
our fate will be same as that sort of additional support ₹5,000 on the family. The police ofcer, Balugaon.
of the Sri Lankan econo- of ₹1 lakh crore, he said. father-son duo fed the
my,” Mr. Chand said, blam- Mr. Chand pointed out village on the pretext of New probe
ing “self-anointed experts” that fertilizer subsidy was arranging money. Subse- Police sources said the
for skewing the debate on usually the only number quently, Parbati Behera woman was suspected to
farm subsidies and mini- considered while evaluat- lodged a complaint at the have been misguided by a
mum support price (MSP) ing farm sector support Tangi police station alleg- human rights activist,
for crops. measures. “We don’t recog- ing that her husband and who had assured her that
Listing out several sup- nise how much subsidy is son had been kidnapped. the government would
port measures that are not going as interest subven- Later, she also moved pay compensation run-
even quantifed while cal- tion — if a farmer repays the Odisha Human Rights ning into lakhs of rupees
culating farm subsidies loan on time, he gets sub- Commission (OHRC) and if her husband and son
support, Mr. Chand reck- vention of 4%. Some States the Orissa High Court. were not rescued in time.
oned that India had already pay the entire interest for After four years, on “The woman is said to
hit the 10% limit of govern- the farmers. Then there is April 18, a Tangi police have spent huge sums by
ment support for the sector crop insurance, for which team ‘rescued’ the father mortgaging her orna-
and fagged the additional 70%-80% of the premium is and son from Gopalpur ments for court cases.
costs of implementing the paid by the Centre, there village in Nayagarh dis- This case will be probed
MSP regime. “The latest are internal freight subsi- trict. The woman was afresh,” said Mr. Barik.
number is that if we are dies,” he said.

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