Lok Sabha Question No. 2694 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-03-16
Subject: Solar Powered City Programme
Ministry: NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY
Asked by: Sunil Kumar Singh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2694

ANSWERED ON 16.03.2023

## SOLAR POWERED CITY PROGRAMME

2694. SHRI SUNIL KUMAR SINGH

Will the Minister of NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY be pleased to state:

- (a)  the objectives and salient features of the development of Solar Powered City Programme (SPCP);
- (b) the cities identified under SPCP across the country, State/UT-wise;
- (c)  the ratio by which power produced by solar energy sources in the solar powered cities has reduced the consumption of power generated by fossil fuels; and
- (d) the quantum of funds sanctioned, released and utilised for the said cities from the time of declaration of these cities as solar powered cities, State/UT-wise?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF NEW & RENEWABLE ENERGY AND POWER

## (SHRI R.K. SINGH)

(a)to(d) 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.

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Annexure referred in reply to part-b of Lok Sabha unstarred question no. 2694 to be answered on 16.03.2023.

## 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   |