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MNRE has asked each State/UT to develop at least one Solar City – Union Power & NRE Minister Shri R. K. Singh – EQ Mag

MNRE has asked each State/UT to develop at least one Solar City – Union Power & NRE Minister Shri R. K. Singh – EQ Mag

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The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has requested each State /Union Territory to select at-least one city to be developed as solar city. A concept note on developing solar city was circulated to the States/UTs with a request to finalise an action plan for development of the cities as identified as solar cities and implement the plan in a time bound manner. There is no separate fund allocation for solar city programme and the funds available under the different existing schemes can be utilized for development of solar cities. So far, 27 States/UTs have identified solar cities in their respective States/UTs. The State/UT wise list of their cities is placed as Annexure. At 19 % CUF, a solar power project of 1 MW capacity produces 1.66 MU of electricity.

Solar City identified by respective State/UT

S.No. Identified Solar City State/UT
1 Majuli Assam
2 Bodh Gaya Bihar
3 Rajgir Bihar
4 Vaishali Bihar
5 New Raipur Chhattisgarh
6 Chandigarh Chandigarh
7 NDMC Delhi
8 Dwarka Gujarat
9 Panchkula Haryana
10 Shimla Himachal Pradesh
11 Giridih Jharkhand
12 Bidar Karnataka
13 Hospet in Bellary Karnataka
14 Thiruvananthapuram Kerala
15 Sanchi Madhya Pradesh
16 TURA Town of West Garo Hills Meghalaya
17 Bhubaneswar Odisha
18 Jaisalmer Rajasthan
19 Pushkar Rajasthan
20 Ayodhya Uttar Pradesh
21 Prayagraj Uttar Pradesh
22 Dehradoon Uttarakhand
23 Prantik in Birbhum, Shantiniketan West Bengal
24 Shaheed Dweep Andaman and Nicobar
25 Amritsar Punjab
26 Jorethang Sikkim
27 Udaipur Town Tripura
28 Saitual Mizoram
29 Diu city DNH and DD
30 Damanwada Panchayat DNH and DD
31 Panjim Goa
32 Dimapur Nagaland
33 Kohima Nagaland
34 Jammu Jammu and Kashmir

This information was given by the Union Minister of New Renewable Energy Sh. R.K. Singh in the Lok Sabha Today.

Anand Gupta Editor - EQ Int'l Media Network