Estimating that the share of direct employment is also going to scale up by an average of 5 percent per annum between 2021-23, the report also noted that the DRE sector has shown resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic unlike other sectors of renewable energy such as wind or solar, which saw large scale unemployment during the pandemic. Abhishek Jain, Fellow and Director (Powering Livelihoods) at the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), a Delhi-based public policy think tank, speaking about the benefits of DRE in boosting livelihood opportunities in rural areas, said, “Among all other sectors of clean energy, DRE is creating many more jobs.