Tihar jail to go green soon

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 on Thursday.

New Delhi: 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 on 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.

IANS

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