Kohima | August 20 : Minister for forest & environment, ecology & excise M.C. Konyak today stressed on the need to inculcate healthy and eco-friendly lifestyle in homes, schools, churches, offices, colonies, villages and the society. “Let us not forget the little things that we can do every day to help conserve energy because energy saved is every generated,” the minister said while speaking at the closing function of the National Renewable Energy Day here today at The Heritage, organized by the state’s department of New & Renewable Energy.
The minister said that there is an unclassified sector or type of energy which is the most critical without which all other forms of energy becomes meaningless and by that he means, human resources of human energy. “There are many dimensions to it and I believe that if human energy is harnessed in a cultured and civilized then all the other resources in the world will be used judiciously.”
The minister believed that DAN government has taken a very positive step by identifying the importance and the need for renewal energy for which it has created a new department of new and renewable energy and thereby joining the nation and global movement for propagating the use of alternative sources of energy.
Stating that the department has many challenges of being a new department, the minister encouraged the department to continue to work hard and propagate the importance and benefits of the use of new and renewable energy source in the state. He also called upon the department to take the message of conservation of the environment through the use of alternative sources energy wherever they go.
The minister called upon the department to carry on the programme of awareness tirelessly especially among the students and the younger generation “because they are the future and the future will be theirs.”
The minister said that the society at present is now living in an energy hungry world where no amount of energy or power produced is enough to meet the requirement to both developed and developing countries. The minister believed that the propagation of alternative source energy is not only appropriate approach but a vital, adding “it has minimum impact on the environment, it is a sustainable source of energy and it has many health advantages over the traditional sources of energy.”
The minister said the greatest advantage of renewable energy is a change in attitude towards health and judicious use of energy or power, conservation of the environment and intimately the sustenance of life on life on earth “ because if we think about it carefully, renewable sources of energy are crucial to sustenance of life on earth.”
Earlier, Er.T. S. Angami, director, NRE in his speech sought the cooperation and understanding the young minds in the state to accept and propagate the new gospel of renewable energy to the people as the only alternative source of energy to survive tomorrow. Er. Kavito Chishi, joint director N&RE said there is provision for setting of Renewable Energy Club in the educational institutions for which he invited the schools and higher secondary schools to contact the department for formation of such clubs to undertake the various activities on renewable energy.
The minister said that there is an unclassified sector or type of energy which is the most critical without which all other forms of energy becomes meaningless and by that he means, human resources of human energy. “There are many dimensions to it and I believe that if human energy is harnessed in a cultured and civilized then all the other resources in the world will be used judiciously.”
The minister believed that DAN government has taken a very positive step by identifying the importance and the need for renewal energy for which it has created a new department of new and renewable energy and thereby joining the nation and global movement for propagating the use of alternative sources of energy.
Stating that the department has many challenges of being a new department, the minister encouraged the department to continue to work hard and propagate the importance and benefits of the use of new and renewable energy source in the state. He also called upon the department to take the message of conservation of the environment through the use of alternative sources energy wherever they go.
The minister called upon the department to carry on the programme of awareness tirelessly especially among the students and the younger generation “because they are the future and the future will be theirs.”
The minister said that the society at present is now living in an energy hungry world where no amount of energy or power produced is enough to meet the requirement to both developed and developing countries. The minister believed that the propagation of alternative source energy is not only appropriate approach but a vital, adding “it has minimum impact on the environment, it is a sustainable source of energy and it has many health advantages over the traditional sources of energy.”
The minister said the greatest advantage of renewable energy is a change in attitude towards health and judicious use of energy or power, conservation of the environment and intimately the sustenance of life on life on earth “ because if we think about it carefully, renewable sources of energy are crucial to sustenance of life on earth.”
Earlier, Er.T. S. Angami, director, NRE in his speech sought the cooperation and understanding the young minds in the state to accept and propagate the new gospel of renewable energy to the people as the only alternative source of energy to survive tomorrow. Er. Kavito Chishi, joint director N&RE said there is provision for setting of Renewable Energy Club in the educational institutions for which he invited the schools and higher secondary schools to contact the department for formation of such clubs to undertake the various activities on renewable energy.
