Lok Sabha Question No. 3545 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-08-10
Subject: Solar Lights in Home and Street
Ministry: NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY
Asked by: Manoj Kumar Tiwari, Nishikant  Dubey

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3545

ANSWERED ON 10.08.2023

## SOLAR LIGHTS IN HOME AND STREET

## 3545. SHRI MANOJ TIWARI DR. NISHIKANT DUBEY

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

(a) whether the Government is implementing any scheme for providing solar lights in home and street and setting up of solar cities in the country, State/UT-wise including Jharkhand; (b) if so, the details thereof along with the number of beneficiaries, State/UT-wise including districts of Jharkhand; and (c) if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF NEW & RENEWABLE ENERGY AND POWER

(SHRI R.K. SINGH)

(a) to (c) Presently, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) is not implementing any scheme for providing solar lights in homes and streets in the country.

MNRE has requested all States/Union Territories, including the state of Jharkhand, to select at least one city to be developed as a solar city. A concept note on developing solar cities was circulated to the States/UTs with a request to finalise an action plan for the development of the cities identified to be solar cities and implement the plan in a time-bound manner. There is no separate fund allocation for the solar city programme and the funds available under the different existing schemes are to be converged for the development of solar cities. So far, 27 States/UTs have identified solar cities in their respective States/UTs and the list is placed as Annexure. The State of Jharkhand has identified Giridih city to be developed as a solar city.

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Annexure referred in reply to Part (a) to (c) of Lok Sabha Unstarred question no. 3545 to be answered on 10.08.2023.

## 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   |