Climate change is the most important question before us: CM Devendra Fadnavis

Before saying this, Fadnavis remarked that the country was moving towards clean energy and green energy and that methods of generation like solar energy, wind energy, pump-hydro storages, green hydrogen, were all included in the plan. “Till next year the 16K MW electricity feeder that farmers need is going to be solar. The advantage is that we produce electricity at Rs 8 and give it to the farmer for free, earlier we used to take Rs 0.25. Now after converting to solar, it will only cost us Rs 3 and we will save Rs 5,” he said.

Startups in Maharashtra

Fadnavis also praised Maharashtra’s achievements in the start-up space and said, “If we look at the Startup India Report, by absolute numbers the highest number of startups are in Maharashtra and by absolute investment too, the highest number of startups are in Maharashtra. Therefore Maharashtra is the startup capital of India. It is no more Bangalore, it is no more Hyderabad, but Maharashtra.”

“Today from any tier-2 or tier-3 city an ITI, polytechnic, engineering college student group develops an idea from which a great increase in ease of living and ease of business is created. At the end of the day, the idea behind doing a startup is to increase ease of business and ease of living,” Fadnavis said.