India, Japan to jointly develop solar city

India and Japan would jointly develop a city in India as “solar city”. An agreement was reached at a meeting of New and Renewable Energy minister Farooq Abdullah with the Japanese minister for Internal Affairs and Communications Kazuhiro Haraguchi on Wednesday.

The government has, till now, given its in-principle approval to 34 cities in the country to be developed as solar cities.

A solar city is one in which the government tries to reduce the demand for conventional energy by 10 per cent in five years through energy efficiency measures and generation from solar power projects.