Lok Sabha Question No. 3067 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-03-19
Subject: Assistance to Small Hydropower Generation
Ministry: NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY
Asked by: Shri Shafi Parambil

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3067

ANSWERED ON 19/03/2025

## ASSISTANCE TO SMALL HYDROPOWER GENERATION

## 3067. SHRI SHAFI PARAMBIL

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

- (a) whether the Government is providing central financial assistance for the development of
- small/mini hydropower generation (less than 25 MW capacity) in States;
- (b) if so, the details thereof; and
- (c) the details of the number of States which have received central financial assistance for the development of small/mini hydropower generation?

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

(a) & (b) No. At present, there is no small hydro power scheme to provide Central Financial Assistance for development of small/mini hydropower projects (less than 25 MW capacity).

- (c) The details of the number of States which have received Central Financial Assistance during the last 5 years against sanctioned small/mini hydropower projects are given at Annexure-I.

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## Annexure I referred to in reply of part (c) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 3067 to be answered on 19.03.2025

The list of the States which have received Central Financial Assistance during the last 5 years against sanctioned small/mini hydropower projects

(Rupees in Crore)

| S. No.   | States                | 2020-21   | 2021-22   | 2022-23   | 2023-24   | 2024-25   |   Total |
|----------|-----------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|---------|
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh        | 8.00      |           |           |           | 2.48      |   10.48 |
| 2        | Arunachal Pradesh     | 5.66      | 0.82      | 1.83      |           |           |    8.31 |
| 3        | Chhattisgarh          | 2.50      |           |           |           |           |    2.5  |
| 4        | Gujarat               |           | 6.65      | 3.19      | 1.58      |           |   11.42 |
| 5        | Haryana               |           |           |           | 0.70      |           |    0.7  |
| 6        | Himachal Pradesh      | 2.00      |           | 0.41      | 0.60      |           |    3.01 |
| 7        | UT of Jammu & Kashmir | 9.31      | 9.50      | 1.50      |           |           |   20.31 |
| 8        | Kerala                |           | 0.35      | 1.63      | 0.45      | 21.86     |   24.29 |
| 9        | UT of Ladakh          |           | 6.00      | 8.80      | 6.57      | 3.54      |   24.91 |
| 10       | Maharashtra           | 5.00      | 3.00      |           | 1.00      |           |    9    |
| 11       | Meghalaya             |           |           |           | 0.47      | 2.00      |    2.47 |
| 12       | Mizoram               | 0.60      | 1.41      |           | 2.09      | 0.34      |    4.44 |
| 13       | Odisha                | 4.75      |           |           |           |           |    4.75 |
| 14       | Sikkim                |           |           | 0.60      |           |           |    0.6  |
| 15       | Uttar Pradesh         | 0.05      |           |           |           |           |    0.05 |
| 16       | Uttarakhand           | 2.91      | 0.28      |           |           |           |    3.19 |
|          | Total                 | 40.78     | 28.01     | 17.96     | 13.46     | 30.22     |  130.43 |