The recently-decided plan to go for a massive increase in solar power generation in the country will figure prominently in the statement of Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar when he tells the delegates at the Lima climate conference about the steps India is taking to combat climate change. READ: Govt to amend green laws to reduce emission: Javadekar Only last month, the government decided that it will aim at producing 100,000 MW of electricity through solar power by the year 2020, five times than the original target of 20,000 MW under the National Solar Mission and that too at least two years earlier than the original deadline. Javadekar, who is in Lima to attend the high-level ministerial segment of the climate change conference, told reporters that the government is planning for public and private investment of $100 billion dollars in the next 6-7 seven years to achieve the ambitious target it has set for solar electricity generation.

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