New Delhi The government is considering setting up a separate corpus out of the existing national clean energy fund to help finance renewable energy projects. Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to announce this in the forthcoming Budget.

The proposal is that the government will set up the corpus out of the money collected in the clean energy fund and, then, seek matching contributions from multilateral agencies like World Bank as well as the private sector, sources said.

Shillong, Feb. 29: The first of the three units of the Myntdu-Leshka hydel power project in Meghalaya’s Jaintia Hills district was formally inaugurated today by chief minister Mukul Sangma.

Despite the fact that most of the higher areas of Uttarakhand are covered with snow during winter, companies engaged in power generation have set new records in terms of power generation in Febr

Every possible effort is being undertaken to make the State self-reliant in power generation.

Experts have made several recommendations to the government including long distance translocation of jumbos to resolve the man-animal conflict in Sakaleshpur taluk of Hassan district.

After a daylong workshop on Saturday organised by the Forest Department, Forest Minister C P Yogeeshwara said, that the experts have suggested that the area which holds small population of elephants is not viable for conservation.