New Delhi, Sep 1 (IANS) The national capital will soon have a world-class training institute to tackle global climate change with experts helping to chalk out strategy to curb the effects of climate change.
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit told the legislative assembly Thursday that the
Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Combating Climate Change will be set up. It will come up in the campus of Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Integrated Rural Energy Planning and Development which is presently under utilized.
?The new institute will have a reputed faculty to impart training and chalk out a number of strategies to curb the effects of climate change which are being faced by the world,? Dikshit added.
Dikshit informed the house that the government is also looking for a technology to generate energy from waste.
She said her government is taking concrete steps to curb air pollution and for that an air ambience fund has been created by imposing a fee of Rs.0.25 per liter of diesel sale in Delhi.
An amount of Rs.30.56 crore was collected under air ambience fund in the financial year 2009-10. An amount of Rs.30.56 crore was collected under air ambience fund in the financial year 2009-10.
