PM Modi’s Green Drive Will Pull People Out Of Poverty: Norway’s Ex Minister

New Delhi: As India strives towards a green future, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s clean energy policies are creating some wonderful opportunities, which will not only help India achieve its Net Zero goal, but also pull millions more out of poverty, Erik Solheim, Former Minister of Climate and the Environment of Norway, has stressed.

Nearly 25 crore Indians have come out of ‘multidimensional poverty in the last nine years’, with poverty levels declining to 11.28 per cent in 2022-23 from 29.17 per cent in 2013-14, according to a recent paper by NITI Aayog.

Solheim told in an interaction that India under PM Modi is now working on making renewable energy mainstream, which would create several economic opportunities in years to come.