New Delhi, March 27 India's transition to clean energy is part of a broader national strategy aimed at reducing import dependence and enabling the country to play a leading role in the global shift towards a greener future, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Friday.
Speaking at the Planet C3 Summit on Climate, Circularity and Community, the minister stated that the clean energy agenda encompasses a wide range of activities, from securing critical resources such as lithium and rare earth-based permanent magnets to scaling up domestic manufacturing, accelerating innovation, and introducing new policy interventions.
"India has emerged as an important global voice in the transition towards sustainable development, and maintaining this position requires both accelerated scaling of existing initiatives and the launch of new ones in a time-bound manner," Singh said.
He also highlighted that sectors such as electric mobility, renewable energy, electronics manufacturing, space, and defense are increasingly dependent on resources like lithium and permanent magnets.
"India currently meets a large share of its requirement through imports, making it necessary to rapidly build domestic capacity," the minister added.
Singh noted that energy security remained central to India's technological growth, particularly in the context of emerging sectors such as artificial intelligence, which require a reliable and continuous power supply.
Nuclear energy is being developed as a dependable source to support such future demands, with the Nuclear Energy Mission targeting a significant increase in capacity by 2047 through a phased and time-bound approach, according to the minister.