Maldives asks India to lead energy-based development

The Maldives asked India to take a lead in developing clean and green energy-based development.

“As India joins the club of world’s most powerful nations, it has a greater responsibility. It should develop as clean power-house of the world,” the Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed said here, addressing the ‘World Conference on Recreating South Asia’.

The rising sea level due to climate change has threatened the existence of several island nations including the Maldives. Pledging his

country’s support to India, Nasheed said, “I am asking India to lead in showing that there is no contradiction in development and survival of my country.”

Appreciating the Indian National Solar Mission, Nasheed said renewable and green energy sectors were creating a new industrial revolution and “if India leads the world in this area, it will lead the world economy for the next 100 years.”