Bhubaneswar, May 17: Today Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik requested the Centre to speed up the construction of the said National Institute of New Energy and Innovation here. Patnaik lettered this to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his urgent intervention in the issue. Notably, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) planned to set up a National Institute of New Energy and Innovation in Odisha for promoting research and innovation in the renewable energy (RE) sector. Patnaik stated in the letter that his state has initiated several steps in view of the developmental goals at a national level in Odisha’s RE sector. The State Government has already allotted 73.86 acres of land for free near IIT, Bhubaneswar. But MNRE is yet to take possession of the land and start the construction.
