{"id":368012,"date":"2020-08-17T10:52:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T05:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=368012"},"modified":"2020-08-17T10:52:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T05:22:11","slug":"pm-modi-says-ladkah-on-its-way-to-create-identity-as-carbon-neutral-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pm-modi-says-ladkah-on-its-way-to-create-identity-as-carbon-neutral-region\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi says Ladkah on its way to create identity as carbon neutral region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday spoke about developing a carbon neutral development model for the newly created Union Territory of Ladakh.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the nation on the 74th Independence Day from the iconic Red Fort, Modi said the way Sikkim has created an identity for itself as an organic state, work is going on at a fast pace for Ladkah to create its identity as a carbon neutral region. He was referring to the solar power projects being developed in the region.<\/p>\n<p>India is strategically trying to develop the Union territory of Ladakh and resolve grid connectivity problems in the region. India is working on a mega 7.5 gigawatts (GW) solar project in Ladakh including a 900-km strategic transmission link to transport surplus power to other parts of the country. The solar project is planned to be set up in blocks of 2.5GW each, and will supply power to the residents of Leh and Kargil districts, besides defence establishments, during harsh winters, while transmitting surplus power to the rest of India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday spoke about developing a carbon neutral development model for the newly created Union Territory of Ladakh. Addressing the nation on the 74th Independence Day from the iconic Red Fort, Modi said the way Sikkim has created an identity for itself as an organic state, work is going on at a fast pace for Ladkah to create its identity as a carbon neutral region. He was referring to the solar power projects being developed in the region. India is strategically trying to develop the Union territory of Ladakh and resolve grid connectivity problems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}