March 30, 2024: Prime Minister Narendra Modi wore a ethnic jacket made from plastic bottles during interaction with Mircrosoft co-founder Bill Gates.

During interaction, PM Modi talked about India’s culture of recycling waste and said the half-jacket he was wearing was made of recycled material with a speciality that it had been made using spare cloth pieces at tailors’ shops and also using recycled plastic bottles.

PM Modi said to Bill Gates that the country is making rapid growth in renewable energy and has provided for a corpus fund of Rs 1 lakh crore in the budget to encourage the younger generation to contribute with innovative ideas.

He also talked about the launch of India’s first indigenous green hydrogen fuel cell inland waterway vessel.