{"id":405548,"date":"2021-03-18T11:16:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T05:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=405548"},"modified":"2021-03-18T11:16:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T05:46:56","slug":"isa-chief-ajay-mathur-on-challenges-and-opportunities-of-the-organisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/isa-chief-ajay-mathur-on-challenges-and-opportunities-of-the-organisation\/","title":{"rendered":"ISA chief Ajay Mathur on challenges and opportunities of the organisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Solar Alliance, launched a little over five years ago at COP21, the UN climate meet in Paris, has new boss. Earlier this week Ajay Mathur, who was unanimously elected to succeed Upendra Tripathy at the special assembly of the ISA in February, took over as the Director-General of the International Solar Alliance. ET\u2019s Urmi A Goswami caught up with Ajay Mathur for an exclusive interview on the challenges and opportunities that exist for ISA as the orgranisation grows and seeks to deliver on its promise of deepening and expanding the use of solar energy, particularly in developing countries.<\/p>\n<p>It has been something of a whirlwind journey for the International Solar Alliance. How do you describe the progress that ISA has made in this time?<br \/>\nThe big thing about ISA is that as an idea it has gelled with a lot of countries. We have membership from more than 80 countri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Solar Alliance, launched a little over five years ago at COP21, the UN climate meet in Paris, has new boss. Earlier this week Ajay Mathur, who was unanimously elected to succeed Upendra Tripathy at the special assembly of the ISA in February, took over as the Director-General of the International Solar Alliance. ET\u2019s Urmi A Goswami caught up with Ajay Mathur for an exclusive interview on the challenges and opportunities that exist for ISA as the orgranisation grows and seeks to deliver on its promise of deepening and expanding the use of solar energy, particularly in developing countries. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405548","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}