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LOK SABHA
The State Governments have been advised to set up District Advisory Committees (DACs) on Renewable Energy in all the districts. This Committee will be broad based and comprise of the District Collector as Chairman and Project Director, District rural Development Agency as Member Secretary. The other members could include : Chief Executive Officer of the Zila Parishad; General Manager, District Industry Centres; District Forest Officer/Deputy Director of Social Forestry; Civil Surgeon, District Health Officer, District Information Officer, National Informatics Centre, Lead Bank Manager; Chairman, District Bar Council or District Government Pleader; representatives of local industry associations, non-government organizations; Rotary Club, Lions Club, and other prominent citizens such as Scientists, two nominees of the Members of Parliament, State Nodal Agencies etc. The proposed terms of reference of DACs would be to (i) create mass awareness about the benefits of renewable energy sources/devices in the respective districts and to support this Ministry in planning and implementing various renewable energy programmes; (ii) integrate various development programmes with renewable energy programmes and (iii) assist in post-installation servicing of renewable energy devices/systems installed in the district. Financial assistance will be provided by the Ministry, time to time for functioning/ meeting of DACs.
The State Governments are actively pursuing the setting up of the Committees at the earliest.
Above information was given by Shri Vilas Muttemwar, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Non-Conventional Energy Sources in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.
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