Fukushima Day
Report of Meeting at Patiala,
March 10, 2013
Renewable energy resources
can meet all our energy requirements. They are also clean, transparent and safe
source of energy. India has the potential of generating 5000 Trillion KW hours
per year of electricity from Solar and 102788 MW from Wind and will need
3128 Trillion Watt hour per year of electrical energy in the future if it
adopts a frugal policy for energy use. This annual need could be met through
renewable energy resources alone in the form of solar power, wind and
hydroelectric power. The only issue involved is the political will. These views
were expressed by Dr Arun Mitra, General Secretary of the national NGO “Indian
Doctors for Peace and Development” while delivering a talk at the seminar on
“Renewable Energy Sources and Sustainable Development” at Patiala organized by
its Patiala Unit in collaboration with six others NGOs of the city on the eve
of Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima in Japan on 11th March 2011.
Dr Balbir Singh, the local
coordinator of the NGO told that in contrast to the natural and renewable
resources of energy like solar, wind and water, the nuclear resources are
neither safe nor economical and are fraught with danger of nuclear
weaponisation with hazardous ill effects on human health which the world has
already witnessed thrice with major accidents in nuclear power plants.
An environmental engineer
from Punjab Pollution Control Board, highlighting various types of pollution
responsible human health hazards, elaborated various measures being taken by
the board to check pollution in the state with specially set up Environment
Protection Squad.
More than 200 participants
including representatives of different NGOs, Dr Janak Sachdeva, Dr Sudhir
Verma, Mrs. Parminder Kaur, Dr N.S. Bawa, Karamjit Singh Jatana ( Retd. DFPO),
Advocate Joginder Singh Jindu, Dr Dharamveer Gandhi, Ujagar Singh ( Retd.
DPRO), Dr Amar Singh Azad and Dr DS Bhullar, participated in the seminar.
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