Report: Newly-elected Modi aims to bring solar to every Indian home by 2019

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Party official reveals ambition to scale up current national solar policy in drive to connect communities and create jobs

India plans to produce enough solar energy to power a lightbulb in every home in the country by 2019, a party official has said. News agency Bloomberg reported this week that the country's new prime...

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