‘E3 Certifications Programme for Brick Manufacturing Sector’

Current Context: R K Singh, Minister of State (I/C) for Power and New & Renewable Energy and Minister of State for Skill Development &Entrepreneurship launched the ‘Energy Efficiency

Enterprise (E3) Certifications Programme for Brick Manufacturing Sector’.

• While launching, the minister acknowledged the responses received from the bricks manufacturing sector to avail the certificate.
• He assured that the certification will lead to having a transition from conventional to efficient technologies and product shift towards low-density bricks with better thermal insulation.
• It will also lead to having energy savings in the brick manufacturing process, improvement in the quality of bricks, cost-saving to the builders and energy saving to the occupiers of the building.
• He has asked the bricks manufacturing companies to upgrade to an E-3 certificate in the next 2-3 years.
• The E3 certification will be granted by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE).

Question: 

Q.1 Who among the following launched ‘Energy Efficiency Enterprise (E3) Certifications Programme for Brick Manufacturing Sector’?
a. Dharmendra Pradhan
b. Hardeep Singh Puri
c. R K Singh
d. Nitin Gadkari