Lok Sabha Question No. 1512 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-07-31
Subject: PM-KUSUM Yojana
Ministry: NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY
Asked by: Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1512

ANSWERED ON 31/07/2024

## PM-KUSUM YOJANA

## 1512. SHRI RAJIV PRATAP RUDY

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

- (a) whether the Government has launched the PM-KUSUM Yojana under renewable energy for agricultural sector;
- (b)  if so, the details thereof and the coverage plan for the State of Bihar;
- (c)  whether all the PSS in the State of Bihar have been covered in which agricultural feeder lines are there and if so, the details thereof; and
- (d) whether it is a fact that under PM-KUSUM Yojana for renewable energy development, a budgetary allocation has been made and the progress achieved across the country and particularly in the State of Bihar with reference to the district of Saran and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR NEW & RENEWABLE ENERGY AND POWER (SHRI SHRIPAD YESSO NAIK)

- (a) & (b) Yes. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy launched PM KUSUM scheme in March, 2019, which has been scaled-up in January 2024 and has the following targets:
- i. Component-A: Setting up of 10,000 MW of Decentralized Ground/ Stilt Mounted Grid Connected Solar or other Renewable Energy based Power Plants by the farmers on their land
- ii. Component-B: Installation of 14 Lakh Stand-alone Solar Agriculture Pumps
- iii. Component-C: Solarisation of 35 Lakh Grid Connected Agriculture Pumps including Feeder Level Solarization.

All three components combined aim to add 34.8 GW of additional solar capacity.

PM-KUSUM Scheme is a demand driven scheme and allocations are made based on the demand received from States. As per the demand raised by the State of Bihar, the Ministry has allocated 1,60,000 pumps for solarization, under Component C of the scheme.

- (c) As informed by the State Implementing Agency, the State DISCOMs have floated the tender of 800 MW for  covering  843  number  of  rural  PSS,  1235  agriculture  feeders  and  solarising  1,36,812  number  of agriculture pumps. The details are enclosed at Annexure - I.
- (d) The total budgetary allocation for PM-KUSUM  scheme, aimed at solarisation of agricultural sector, is Rs. 34,422 Crore.

The Progress achieved under the PM-KUSUM in the country, including the State of Bihar, is at AnnexureII.

Bihar is undertaking steps to accelerate the progress of the PM-KUSUM scheme including in Saran district.

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## Annexure-I referred to in reply to part (c) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 1512 for

31.7.2024 Details of the PSS covered under PM-KUSUM scheme in the State of Bihar (as on

## 30.06.2024)

|   S. No. | Company   |   TotalMW |   Feeder |   No. of PSS |   No. of active pumps |
|----------|-----------|-----------|----------|--------------|-----------------------|
|        1 | SBPDCL    |       507 |      531 |          388 |                 88512 |
|        2 | NBPDCL    |       293 |      704 |          455 |                 48300 |
|        3 | Total     |       800 |     1235 |          843 |                136812 |

## Annexure-II referred to in reply to part (d) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 1512 for 31.7.2024

## Progress under PM-KUSUM (as on 30.06.2024)

| S. No.   | State             | Component-A (MW)   | Component-A (MW)   | Component-B (Nos)   | Component-B (Nos)   | Component-C (Nos)   | Component-C (Nos)   | Component-C (Nos)   |
|----------|-------------------|--------------------|--------------------|---------------------|---------------------|---------------------|---------------------|---------------------|
| S. No.   | State             | Sanctioned         | Installed          | Sanctioned          | Installed           | Sanctioned (IPS)    | Sanctioned (FLS)    | Installed           |
| 1        | Arunachal Pradesh | 2                  | 0                  | 700                 | 259                 | 0                   | 0                   | 0                   |
| 2        | Assam             | 10                 | 0                  | 4000                | 0                   | 1000                | 0                   | 0                   |
| 3        | Chhattisgarh      | 30                 | 4                  | 10000               | 0                   | 0                   | 157500              | 0                   |
| 4        | Bihar             | 0                  | 0                  | 0                   | 0                   | 0                   | 160000              | 0                   |
| 5        | Gujarat           | 500                | 0                  | 12382               | 6399                | 0                   | 625000              | 0                   |
| 6        | Goa               | 150                | 0                  | 900                 | 0                   | 0                   | 11000               | 700                 |
| 7        | Haryana           | 85                 | 2.25               | 252655              | 102973              | 0                   | 65079               | 0                   |
| 8        | Himachal Pradesh  | 100                | 23.4               | 1270                | 638                 | 0                   | 0                   | 0                   |
| 9        | Jammu& Kashmir    | 20                 | 0                  | 5000                | 1425                | 4000                | 0                   | 0                   |
| 10       | Jharkhand         | 20                 | 0                  | 42985               | 15051               | 1000                | 0                   | 0                   |
| 11       | Karnataka         | 0                  | 0                  | 27214               | 1368                | 0                   | 587000              | 0                   |
| 12       | Kerala            | 40                 | 0                  | 100                 | 8                   | 55100               | 25387               | 6135                |
| 13       | Ladakh            | 0                  | 0                  | 1400                | 0                   | 0                   | 0                   | 0                   |
| 14       | Madhya Pradesh    | 600                | 20.13              | 59400               | 7325                | 0                   | 295000              | 0                   |
| 15       | Maharashtra       | 700                | 6                  | 405000              | 119306              | 0                   | 775000              | 3650                |
| 16       | Manipur           | 0                  | 0                  | 150                 | 78                  | 0                   | 0                   | 0                   |
| 17       | Meghalaya         | 0                  | 0                  | 3035                | 96                  | 0                   | 0                   | 0                   |
| 18       | Mizoram           | 0                  | 0                  | 2700                | 0                   | 0                   | 0                   | 0                   |
| 19       | Nagaland          | 5                  | 0                  | 265                 | 65                  | 0                   | 0                   | 0                   |
| 20       | Odisha            | 500                | 0                  | 8241                | 3766                | 65000               | 10000               | 0                   |
| 21       | Puducherry        | 0                  | 0                  | 0                   | 0                   | 0                   | 0                   | 0                   |
| 22       | Punjab            | 220                | 0                  | 103000              | 12952               | 186                 | 75000               | 0                   |
| 23       | Rajasthan         | 550                | 201                | 262914              | 72603               | 6418                | 200000              | 3007                |
| 24       | Tamil Nadu        | 424                | 0                  | 5200                | 3236                | 0                   | 0                   | 0                   |
| 25       | Telangana         | 4000               | 0                  | 400                 | 0                   | 0                   | 28000               | 0                   |
| 26       | Tripura           | 5                  | 0                  | 10895               | 2828                | 2600                | 0                   | 50                  |
| 27       | Uttar Pradesh     | 151                | 0                  | 118790              | 46743               | 2000                | 370000              | 0                   |
| 28       | Uttarakhand       | 0                  | 0                  | 5685                | 318                 | 200                 | 0                   | 0                   |
| 29       | West Bengal       | 0                  | 0                  | 10000               | 0                   | 23700               | 0                   | 20                  |
| 30       | Andaman& Nicobar  | 0                  | 0                  | 34                  | 0                   | 436                 | 0                   | 0                   |
|          | Total             | 8112               | 256.78             | 1354315             | 397437              | 161640              | 3383966             | 13562               |