Puducherry adds about 13 MW of renewable energy capacity

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Solar panels installed connected  the terrace of the Legislative Assembly gathering  successful  Puducherry. File

Solar panels installed connected the terrace of the Legislative Assembly gathering successful Puducherry. File | Photo Credit: S.S. Kumar

Puducherry has added a full of 13.794 MW capableness of renewable vigor sources nether the Central government’s Grid Connected Rooftop Solar (GCRT) programme and PM Surya Ghar Bijli Yojana (PMSGMBY) strategy successful caller times, Minister of State for New and Renewable Energy and Power Shripad Yesso Naik has informed the Lok Sabha.

Replying to an unstarred question by the Member of Parliament V. Vaithilingam, Mr. Naik said the Ministry has released astir ₹16.21 crore towards the installation of 2,329 star projects successful the Union Territory.  

Under the PMSGMBY scheme, the Ministry is providing fiscal assistance to each residential households for the mounting up of residential rooftop star plants astatine the complaint of 30,000 for 1 KW, ₹60,000 for 2 KW, and ₹78,000 for 3 KW and above. Necessary method enactment was provided to each types of consumers for the adoption of renewable vigor solution. The Ministry besides provided fiscal assistance towards the installation of rooftop star plants successful residential, institutional, and societal assemblage class of consumers under the GCRT programme, helium said.

Seven protected monuments successful UT

To different unstarred question pertaining to practice successful Puducherry raised by Mr. Vaithilingam, Union Minister of Culture and Tourism Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said determination are astir 7 Centrally protected monuments/sites successful Puducherry nether the ambit of the Archaeological Survey of India. 

“Conservation, preservation and attraction of these centrally protected monuments/sites is simply a continuous process and it was taken arsenic per request and availability of resources. All the monuments are successful a bully authorities of preservation. There are nary projects projected nether the National Mission connected Monuments and Antiquities successful Puducherry,” the Minister said.

Published - December 11, 2025 04:47 p.m. IST

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