Prime Minister Narendra Modi has at all times prioritised the power sector of the North East, Petroleum and Pure Fuel Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has mentioned.

The prime minister’s precedence is to place the area on a excessive development trajectory and he’s placing nice emphasis on the power sector, Puri mentioned whereas taking part on the run-up occasion to the India Power Week occasion right here on Monday night time.

The India Power Week will likely be held from February 6 to eight in Bengaluru.

With out giving particulars, the Union minister mentioned a number of large initiatives within the sector are additionally within the pipeline within the area.

The petroleum and pure fuel minister was additionally current on the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Numaligarh Refinery Restricted (NRL) and the Assam authorities to arrange three bamboo nurseries that had been signed on the event.

Every nursery will cowl an space of 5 hectares to perform secondary hardening of tissue-cultured bamboo saplings and will likely be arrange in Golaghat, Nagaon and Sonitpur.

He additionally interacted with farmers who’re supplying bamboo on a sustainable foundation to Assam Bio-Refinery, the primary of its form 2G (second era) Bio Refinery with bamboo biomass as feedstock, carried out by Numaligarh Refinery Restricted.

The second era biorefineries use a non-petroleum primarily based course of for the manufacturing of fuels and chemical substances with low greenhouse fuel emissions.

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