Centre nudges States to view farm solarisation as a route to wiping off ₹2.4 lakh crore subsidy bill

Indian States collectively walk astir ₹2.4 lakh crore a twelvemonth connected subsidising energy for cultivation and home consumers, Ministry for New and Renewable Energy Secretary Santosh Kumar Sarangi said, adding that the Centre’s star programmes are progressively designed not conscionable to adhd cleanable vigor capableness but to transportation States that this subsidy measure tin beryllium eliminated implicit time.

“Different States person antithetic amounts which they give. So to that grade they volition prevention connected this immense subsidy outgo erstwhile they follow much and much workplace solarisation and much and much rooftop solarisation,” Mr. Sarangi told The Hindu successful an interview.