By IANS,
New Delhi : You can take Farooq Abdullah out of Kashmir, but you can’t take Kashmir out of him. Even as a central cabinet minister in charge of new and renewable energy – that is bound to be a crucial ministry in some years as the country hunts for alternative energy sources – he is fixated on his home state.
During a recent trip to Chennai to visit a factory manufacturing turbines for windmills, the National Conference patron was impressed with the technology but complained that the blades of the windmills were too big to be transported to Ladakh, which falls in Jammu and Kashmir.
“How will you get them across the mountains and the Jawahar Tunnel (which connects the Kashmir Valley to the rest of India)? You have to make smaller windmills for Ladakh because we really need renewable sources of energy there,” he told the manufacturer.
It is now believed that customized blades are being built!