Bhubaneswar, June 19 -- Odisha will take the lead in establishing a Community of Practice for Energy Ministers from various Indian states and host a conference of the Energy Ministers of different states later this year.

A tripartite Letter of Intent (LoI) in this regard was signed on Thursday in New Delhi by the Energy Department of the Government of Odisha, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, and the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI).

The LoI was signed by TBI Country Director for India Vivek Agarwal, IIT Kanpur Dean Professor Sachidanand Tripathy, and FA-cum-Additional Secretary of the Odisha Energy Department Devidutta Tripathy.

Odisha Deputy Chief Minister K. V. Singh Deo and former United Kingdom Prime Mini...