Question

National solar mission under which ministry

Answer 1

The Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, also known as the National Solar Mission, is an initiative of the Government of India and State Governments to promote solar power. The mission is one of the several initiatives that are part of the National Action Plan on Climate Change.[1] The program was inaugurated[2] by former Prime MinisterManmohan Singh on 11 January 2010[3] with a target of 20GW by 2022 which was later increased to 100 GW by the Narendra Modi government in the 2015 Union budget of India.[4] India increased its solar power generation capacity by nearly 5 times from 2,650 MW on 26 May 2014[5] to 12,288.83 MW on 31 March 2017. The country added 5,525.98 MW in 2016-17, the highest of any year.[6]