India's Action Plan on Solar Energy

India's National Action Plan on Climate Change, first announced last year, includes plans to install up to 200 GW of solar generation capacity by 2050. The first 20 GW of solar capacity is planned to be installed by 2020.

In the first phase of the plan extending through 2012, the government plans to deploy 100 MW of solar cells on public sector buildings, promote utility-scale photovoltaic projects and set up local solar manufacturing parks.

The plan envisions 1 GW installed solar generation capacity by 2012, up from almost nothing in 2008, according to a research note from Barclays Capital.

The government aims to spend an estimated Rs.97,973.88 crore (US$20 billion) over the next 30 years on the plan. About Rs.4,899 crore ($1 billion) will be spent in the next five years.

As part of the plan, India intends to set up two or three solar manufacturing parks consisting of polysilicon manufacturing plants to make solar cells capable of generating up to 2 GW per year.

As part of the plan, India intends to set up two or three solar manufacturing parks consisting of polysilicon manufacturing plants to make solar cells capable of generating up to 2 GW per year.

Solar PV capital costs relative to India's per capita GDP currently make India an attractive market for commercial/industrial applications and we expect growth in this segment to be significant. India is currently not a major solar market, but this new proposed programme has the potential to attract several project investors for large scale utility projects.

Rural Infrastructure - Essential for survival of India

Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh : Our growth potential will be realized only if we can ensure that our infrastructure does not become a severe handicap.

Dy. Chairman – India Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia: One of the critical constraints which holds back our growth rate is really the quality of infrastructure

Ex – Finance Minister P. Chidambaram : Infrastructure development is essential to sustain high growth rates in future


World Bank’s “ Global Competitiveness Report 2007-08 " : ‘Inadequate supply of infrastructure in India’ - India ranked 48th out of 131 counties in the Global Competitive Index 2007 - Ranked 67th on the quality of infrastructure - India lags behind in infrastructure facility usage compared to US & China.

Rural India Development Project:

Dr. Manmohan Singh,
Hon'ble Prime Minister of India



"My vision of rural India is of a modern agrarian,

industrial and services economy co-existing side by side,

where people can live in well equipped villages-----------.

Rural incomes have to be increased.

Rural infrastructure has to be improved.

Rural education and health needs have to be met.

Employment opportunities have to be created in Rural India."

Rural India Development Project: Solar Power System for Home

Solar Power System for Rural India Development Project:

http://www.tatabpsolar.com/Pragati_3.pdf

Follow up under RGGVY for Electrification of Chakauti‏, the dark corner of India

Sent: 13 June 2009 17:44PM

To: Director (RE),
Ministry of Power,
Shram Shakti Bhavan,
New Delhi


Dear Director,

Kindly refer to your letter dated August 10, 2007 regarding electrification of my home village Chakauti in Sitamarhi District.

Now as the 11th Plan is already mid way through, and as I am planning to return to the Village, could you kindly apprise me of the progress on the project.

Best regards,

Yours sincerely

(A Villager resident abroad)

Government of India promises Electrification of Chakauti

Subject: Electrification of Chakauti
Date: Fri, August 10, 2007 4:31 pm

To:
A villager resident abroad,

Dear Sir,

This has reference to your e-mail to Secretary, Ministry of Power regarding electrification of your home villages Chakauti in Sitamarhi district.

The matter has been got checked up. GOI has launched Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana for electrification of un-electrfied villages, intensive electrification of electrified villages and to provide free connections to BPL families. A project under the scheme has beensanctioned for the district Sitamarhi also. Chakauti village was not included under the project by the state for electrification as it was declared as electrifed earlier. However, during detailed survey during implementation of the sanctioned project, it was found that the village has got de-electrified. A supplementary project has been prepared to cover the village.

The RGGVY was for X Plan only. The proposal for continuation of the Scheme for XI Plan is under consideration of the Govt. The supplementary project will be sanctioned after approval of the scheme.

Best regards.

Yours sincerly

Director (RE)
Ministry of Power

New comment on Government of India promises Electrification of Chakauti....
Dharmendra Thakur has left a new comment on your post "Government of India promises Electrification of C...": 

This has been a great news for fellow villagers. I hope people of Chakauti will no longer be in dark. Lets hope for a brighter tommorrow. Things will change once people living outside village will contribute their part for the upliftment of the village. 

Regards,
Dharmendra Thakur
dharmendra.thakur@gmail.com 

Solar Power System for Home

Planning to Create Electricity through Solar Power System for Home

STATUS OF RURAL ELECTRIFICATION- Waiting for govt. to solve Bihar’s energy crisis :

Out of 67,513 villages in Bihar, 19,233 are not electrified which means

Percentage of Villages Un electrified : 29%


Total number of rural households in Bihar: 126,60,007

Households not electrified: 120,10,504

Percentage of un electrified rural households : 95.23%




Number of water pumps in Bihar : 1352200

Number of Pumpsets running on state electric supply : 278963

Percentage of pumps running on diesel = 80%


I believe my plan to Create Electricity by installing Solar Power System for Home will work.


I would like to invite advice/ suggestion for success of the plan.



Gobind

Rural India Development Project

Development of Villages in India is long awaited. Low availability of job opportunities, shortage of electricity, good roads and rail linkages, inadaquate medical facilities and insufficient financial resources have so far kept villages unattractive for settling. I hope that through the new National Rural Policy being initiated by the UPA Govt., villages all over India would benefit and would raise the viability of villages among the people there who tend to move away from these villages to the slums of Mumbai and Delhi for earning their bare livelihood, bereft of all human dignity and necessity.

I plan to work for my village,  and I believe that there are possibilities of sustained development there.