Firming up its national plan to fight global warming, the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change today approved in principle a Rs 91,684 crore mega-plan proposing to make India a global leader in solar power in next few decades.
The Solar Mission is one of the seven missions
proposed under the National Action Plan on Climate Change
which was unveiled by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last year
promising country's efforts to tackle climate change at the
domestic level.
The Solar Mission is one of the seven missions
proposed under the National Action Plan on Climate Change
which was unveiled by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last year
promising country's efforts to tackle climate change at the
domestic level.
The Council considered the draft and endorsed the
document in principle. The Council also directed that various
suggestions made at the meeting should be incorporated and
recast the document, PMO sources said.
The meeting was attended among others by Finance
Minister Pranab Mukherjee, External Affairs Minister S M
Krishna, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, Science and
Technology Minister Prithviraj Chavan and Environment Minister
Jairam Ramesh.
The members at the meeting of the council are also
understood to have deliberated the issues such as whether
India would be paying a subsidy of Rs 82,000 crore to produce
an ambitious 2,00,000 MW of solar power by 2050.
Various fiscal incentives have been proposed under
mission document to the manufacturers as well end-consumers to
propagate solar plants and technology for instance to displace
diesel generators, UPS and inverter system with solar-based
systems, sources said.
Bureau Report
First Published: Tuesday, August 04, 2009, 00:41