Indian ashrams urged to embrace Solar Mission

Madeleine Cuff
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Indian ashrams are being encouraged to install solar arrays to promote the virtues of green energy

India is enlisting the help of its spiritual leaders to help meet its ambitious government target of installing 40,000MW of rooftop solar capacity by 2022. India's religious and interfaith gurus will...

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