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06/06/22 08:58 AM IST

NSEFI’s Pan-India Rooftop Solar Awareness Campaign

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  • Shri Bhagwant Khuba, Minister of State for New and Renewable Energy    launched the Pan-India Rooftop Solar Awareness Campaign in an event at Bidar, Karnataka.
About the Campaign 
  • Rooftop Solar provides an opportunity to the common person to make his contribution towards Global Warming & Climate Change.
  • This campaign titled “GHAR KE UPAR SOLAR IS SUPER” shall aim at mobilizing local government, citizens, RWAs, and Municipalities to spread awareness of Solar Rooftop.
  •  Rooftop solar will play major role and Tier-2 & Tier-3 cities offer maximum potential in achieving this target.
  •  Karnataka alone has the potential of 1 GW rooftop solar.
  • The minister highlighted that MNRE is providing 40% of subsidy for households to install solar.
  • Hence he urged public to install rooftop by utilizing subsidy from central government.
  • In PM-KUSUM scheme farmers will be given 30% subsidy each by centre and state to install solar pumps.
About NSEFI 
  • NSEFI, with the support of the German Solar Association (BSW) and the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) under the Sequa KVP Programme, is launching a 3 year long, Pan India Rooftop Awareness Program aimed at increasing awareness of Solar Rooftops among 100 Indian towns and cities, especially tier 2 and tier 3 towns/cities.
Source- PIB 

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