Why there is an urgent need to develop a sustainable path of energy development?

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The reasons for urgent need to develop a sustainable path of energy development are mentioned below:

(i)Energy is a basic requirement for economic development.Every sector of the national economy – agriculture, industry, transport, commercial and domestic – needs inputs of energy.

(ii)The economic development plans implemented since Independence necessarily required increasing amounts of energy to remain operational.

(iii)As a result, consumption of energy in all forms has been steadily rising all over the country