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Hospitals, offices need to be more energy efficient: expert
India needs to make its mega facilities like hospitals, airports, hotels, stadiums and offices more energy efficient, an expert said today. "Giving LED bulbs to households is a good way to have energy efficiency. We call it as low hanging fruits, when you change the bulbs to LED lamps," Shrinivas Chebbi, Vice President (India and SAARC), Schneider Electric India Private Limited, told PTI. He was speaking on the sidelines of a three-day conference on energy conservation, 'EcoXpert Live India 2016', which began in South Goa yesterday. "If you look at energy deficiency we still have in India, that (providing bulbs) is one good way but it may not be everything. Our issues are lot more to do with making hospitals, hotels, stadiums, office spaces and homes energy efficient," Chebbi said. He said the country needs to look at technological solutions to save electricity in bigger spaces. "Air-conditioner is a big power guzzler. There are technologies available which can make ...
SAARC needs to unleash 'collective strength': Sushma Swaraj
She said we account for merely 2% of world trade, 1.7% of world FDI, our intra-regional trade is less than 6% of our global trade and intra-regional FDI accounts for only 3% of total FDI inflows
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