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Introduction
Currently, climate change is recognized as a serious global environmental concern. These have led countries around the world to adopt ‘low carbon pathways’, which reduce carbon emissions and thus contribute to reduce climate change. In recent years, India’s emerging economic growth and rising energy consumption have led to increase in GHG emissions, which also make India the fourth largest emitter of GHGs after China, USA and EU. in 2009, India announced reduction of emission intensity of its GDP by 20–25 percent over the 2005 levels by 2020. Several other initiatives with respect to meeting this objective have also been undertaken in order to tackle climate change and reduce energy consumption without compromising the country’s development agenda. Renewable energy (RE) has been an important component of India’s energy planning process for more than four decades. The importance of renewable energy sources in the transition to a sustainable energy base was recognized way back in the early 1970s. It started with the establishment of the Department of Non-Conventional Energy Sources in 1982, which later became the Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources (MNES) in 1992, and subsequently renamed as the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) in 2006.India is currently ranked fifth in the world with 15,691.4 MW grid connected and 367.9 MW off-grid renewable energy based power
capacity. India is one of the most developed renewable energy markets in South Asia, According to the latest Ernst & Young report, India is among the top seven countries in the world in terms of the renewable energy attractiveness index.
An effective and planned utilization of the available RE potential can thus pave the way for a sustainable growth of solar energy in the country. India has the vision, potential and policies to scale up the use of renewable energy sources. Most importantly, there is an increase in public awareness about clean energy and an eagerness to adopt a green lifestyle. With vox pop playing a crucial role in almost every facet of the society, it has become very important to reach out to more and more people for adopting solar energy sources, to discuss its larger benefits, and explain to them the difference that renewable can make in reducing environmental hazards in the world. As we know the next level of development in these revolutionary technology is through the hands of young citizens especially students. the research is been conducted in to analyze the knowledge level about solar energy among student.