New Delhi, Nov 26
Tihar jail will soon go green. The jail will be turned into a model energy saving building - equipped with solar setup for hot water and cooking, and the waste will be processed for biogas, an official said Thursday.
Deepak Gupta, secretary in the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy, said: "Tihar Jail will be developed as a model establishment for saving energy."
Speaking at the 4th Sustainability Summit: Asia 2009 'Winning Strategies for a Sustainable World' organized here, Gupta said the ministry is willing to work with various sectors of industry for providing renewable energy to remote villages.
"Practices of energy conservation and energy efficiency are a moral imperative for businesses," he said.