Energy meet concludes at Anand

The meet was inaugurated by professor A C Pandya, former director, BIAF, Bhopal. He said while conventional sources of energy were being emptied because of extensive use and fossil fuel has polluted the environment, it is necessary that non-conventional sources of energy like solar energy, bio-gas, and others are used and new technologies are developed.

The meet discussed the on-going research programmes on bio-gas and wind-mill sources and chalked out strategies.

SPRERI director B S Pathak said, short and long term programmes to meet energy requirements of agriculture and agro-based industries should be taken up on priority and non-conventional and renewable sources be used for these industries.

Killed: A Class XII student was killed near Vaibhav tower on Anand-Vidyanagar road when his motorbike rammed into a police patrol van on Saturday night. Anand town police said Ashwin Kumar, son of NCC officer, Subedar B D Dogra was coming from Lambhavel Road on a friend8217;s Hero Honda motorbike GJ-3 E-8435 hit the van. He died in a hospital at Karmasad.

Police said Dogra was on leave and had gone to Himachal Pradesh.