How India can make its economic recovery clean, sustainable post Covid-19

The renewable sector holds the key to not only offsetting the job losses due to the pandemic, but also making the recovery sustainable

In reviving its economy post-Covid-19, India could turn a crisis into an opportunity by resetting its energy spending to favour clean energy, enabling citizens to continue enjoying the unprecedented clean air and blue skies bestowed by the lockdown. 

As a start, Prime Minister Narendra Modi could solarise over 39,000 unelectrified health sub-centres—the first point of contact between the primary health care system and the local community — serving 230 million people in rural India. That is the recommendation of 20 leaders from top think-tanks, renewable energy companies, industry groups, and health care services, who wrote to Prime Minister Modi on April