India, June 22 -- At least 100 people have died this summer in one of the country's longest heat waves in recent history.

New Delhi: India is set to get the world's first cooling commission aimed at preventing fatalities caused by extreme heat stress. The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) headed by Prakash Javadekar has set the ball rolling to implement the draft National Cooling Action Plan (NCAP) which was tabled in September last year.

Interestingly, the NCAP is said to be a pet project of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he introduced a similar CAP in Gujarat in 2010 when he was Chief Minister of the state. After coming to the Centre, Modi once again pitched for a pan-India CAP and that resulted in th...