Budget aims to achieve 'sustainable energy for all' goal: Anil Chaudhry

However, this will require investments in grid management and digitisation of the grid

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Anil Chaudhry, country president and MD, Schneider Electric India

BS B2B Bureau

Last Updated : Feb 01 2017 | 6:14 PM IST

With India being the fifth largest energy consumer in the world, the country needs to make a concerted effort in promoting energy efficiency by reducing its dependence on fossil fuels and curtailing carbon footprints.

While access to energy is a basic human right, we need to make it sustainable. Today’s budget gave a clear indication of the government’s focus to achieve ‘sustainable energy for all’, with two of its critical steps; firstly, by providing a boost to rural electrification with a 25 percent increase in the outlay for key power schemes like Integrated Power Development Scheme and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram

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