7.5 crore Indian households without access to electricity: report

“The Renewable Energy Act should be enacted to make provisions for the off-grid applications such as solar heating and cooling, renewable energy in transport, heating and cooling, promotion of bio-energy and bio-fuels, off-grid generation and rural electrification, grid connectivity and transmission planning' and others,” they said.

A National Renewable Energy Policy should also be prepared by the New and Renewable Energy Ministry, it says.

“...The government should urgently ‘establish a National Energy Access Mission (NEAM) aimed at providing modern and clean energy to all in sufficient quantity at affordable prices,” the memorandum said.

The memorandum was signed by MPs belonging to “Climate Parliament” group.

They include J D Seelam and Jhansi Lakshmi Botcha (Congress), Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Sanjay Jaiswal (BJP), K P Ramalingam (DMK), Vandana Chavan (NCP), Anup Kumar Saha (CPI -M), Shashi Bhusan Behera (BJD), Jayant Chaudhary (RLD) and Ali Anwar Ansari (JD-U).