‘Solar Gandhi’ felicitated at IIT-B on completing 1,000 days of Energy Swaraj Yatra
Hindustan TimesMUMBAI: A thousand days of travelling more than 43,000 km across 20 states to promote solar energy and give 750 talks on energy conservation. That, in a nutshell, has been the life of Professor Chetan Singh Solanki—also known as the Solar Man of India or Solar Gandhi—since November 2020 when he initiated the Energy Swaraj Yatra. On Tuesday, at an event at IIT-Bombay called ‘1,000 Days, 1,000 Hopes’, Solanki was felicitated by the institute for hitting the 1,000-day milestone of the Energy Swaraj Yatra, which is slated to end in 2030. “Amid the growing challenges of climate change and rising global temperatures, the world has to move towards adopting 100 percent renewable energy to limit the average increase in global temperature by two degrees Celsius,” said Solanki at the event. The Energy Swaraj Yatra isn’t solely a personal expedition; it’s a rallying cry and an appeal to everyone to embrace the transformative potential of solar energy.” The energy activist also launched a campaign on the occasion called ‘This election, think of a climate correction’.
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