Lok Sabha Question No. 660 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-07-23
Subject: Solar City
Ministry: NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY
Asked by: VINOD CHAVDA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED  QUESTION NO. 660

TO BE ANSWERED ON 23.07.2015

## SOLAR CITY

660. SHRI VINOD LAKHAMASHI CHAVDA:

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

- (a) whether the Government proposes to make Bhuj or Gandhidham of Gujarat a solar city;
- (b) if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether the Government also received such requests from the other States; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof along with the reaction of the Government thereto?

## ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR POWER, COAL & NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) (SHRI PIYUSH GOYAL)

(a)&(b): Gandhinagar, Rajkot and Surat have been sanctioned for solar cities in the State of Gujarat under 'Development of Solar Cities Programme' of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.

(c)&(d): Yes, Madam. So far, 55 existing cities in 27 States/UTs are being developed as solar  cities  in  the  country  under  'Development  of  Solar  Cities  programme'.  State-wise  list  of approved solar cities is given in Annexure.

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Annexure referred to in reply to Parts (c)&(d) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 660 for answered on  23.07.2015.

## State-wise list of approved Solar Cities

|   Sr. No | State             | Approved Solar Cities                                  |
|----------|-------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|
|        1 | Andhra Pradesh    | Vijayawada Mahbubnagar*                                |
|        2 | Assam             | Guwahati Jorhat                                        |
|        3 | Arunachal Pradesh | Itanagar                                               |
|        4 | Chandigarh        | Chandigarh                                             |
|        5 | Chhattisgarh      | Bilaspur Raipur                                        |
|        6 | Gujarat           | Rajkot Gandhinagar Surat                               |
|        7 | Goa               | Panji City                                             |
|        8 | Haryana           | Gurgaon Faridabad                                      |
|        9 | Himachal Pradesh  | Shimla Hamirpur                                        |
|       10 | Karnataka         | Mysore Hubli-Dharwad                                   |
|       11 | Kerala            | Thiruvananthapuram* Kochi                              |
|       12 | Maharashtra       | Nagpur Thane Kalyan-Dombivali Aurangabad Nanded Shirdi |
|       13 | Madhya Pradesh    | Indore* Gwalior Bhopal Rewa                            |
|       14 | Manipur           | Imphal                                                 |
|       15 | Mizoram           | Aizawl                                                 |
|       16 | Nagaland          | Kohima Dimapur                                         |
|       17 | Delhi             | New Delhi (NDMC area)                                  |
|       18 | Orissa            | Bhubaneswar                                            |
|       19 | Punjab            | Amritsar Ludhiana SAS Nagar (Mohali)                   |
|       20 | Rajasthan         | Ajmer Jaipur* Jodhpur                                  |
|       21 | Tamil Nadu        | Coimbatore                                             |
|       22 | Tripura           | Agartala                                               |
|       23 | Uttarakhand       | Dehradun                                               |
|       23 | Uttarakhand       | Haridwar &Rishikesh                                    |
|       23 | Uttarakhand       | Chamoli - Gopeshwar                                    |
|       24 | Uttar Pradesh     | Agra                                                   |

| Sr. No   | State          | Approved Solar Cities               |
|----------|----------------|-------------------------------------|
|          |                | Allahabad                           |
| 25       | West Bengal    | Howrah Madhyamgram New Town Kolkata |
| 26       | Jammu &Kashmir | Leh*                                |
| 27       | Puducherry     | Puducherry                          |

*Only In-principal approval given.