Watch | PM Modi plays drums with members of Indian community before departing from Glasgow

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday played the drums with the members of the Indian community while meeting them before his departure from Glasgow.

The Indian community living in Scotland gathered around to felicitate PM Modi’s Glasgow visit and included a band of drummers who played the drums throughout his meet and greet.

PM Modi went around the crowd shaking hands and talking with adults as well as kids. While greeting, he came around a bunch of drummers who had kept a spare drum beside them. They offered the drum to the PM after which he was seen playing it along with the band.

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Modi was here to attend the high-level segment of the World Leaders' Summit at the ongoing 26th conference of parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). All eyes were on India -- deemed as the largest polluter after China and the US by the west and ending the guessing game on day one itself, Modi declared that India will achieve net-zero by 2070 among other climate actions.

On day two, the Prime Minister launched the Infrastructure for the Resilient Island States (IRIS), co-created by the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) for working with the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to identify opportunities for partnerships and technical collaborations to strengthen infrastructure systems for resilient development in these countries.

The last big-ticket event was the launch of his ambitious programme, the GGI-OSOWOG, the Green Grids Initiative (GGI) as part of the One Sun One World One Grid (OSOWOG) combining a massive increase in solar and wind power with international grids in every continent, connecting energy-rich locations such as sunny deserts and windy coastlines.

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