Piyush Goyal, the Power Minister has taken up the challenge to make Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh a 100% clean energy city to steal a march on Germany's Munich.

"Noting Munich’s aim to become 100 per cent renewable energy powered city by 2025, Goyal threw a challenge to make Varanasi 100 per cent renewable energy powered before 2025 and beat Munich," stated Power Ministry in a statement.

he further said, "In this way, the World’s oldest city (Varanasi) can also become the first major city to be powered fully by clean energy. The Minister instructed officials to start working on this including the storage and distribution infrastructure required for the same."

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