How to prevent India's rural poor from missing out on a green jobs boom

The reason for the fear is that in 2016, India's clean-energy sector employed 385,000 workers but mostly on contract

India’s clean-energy push to triple renewables over the next five years can generate 330,000 jobs, as IndiaSpend reported in August 2017. But can these renewable energy jobs help alleviate poverty in India, especially in its rural pockets?

Only if the renewables sector can offer permanent jobs with stability and other benefits to contractual employees expected to form around 80 per cent of its workforce, said a report by the World Resources Initiative (WRI), a think tank. To ensure that this jobs boom is inclusive, the