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Over 200,000 Farmers Have Benefited from PM-KUSUM: Power Minister

The Minister of Power R.K. Singh told the Parliament that the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthan Mahabhiyan (PM-KUSUM) program has benefited over 200,000...

March 29, 2023

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Gautamee Hazarika

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Renewable Energy
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Here is the Solar Industry Wishlist for Budget 2021

Riddled with a pandemic and the subsequent lockdowns, 2020 was a year everyone wants to forget. The year was also adverse for the solar industry, which saw manufacturing...

January 22, 2021

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Rahul Nair

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Markets & Policy

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Solar
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Finance Ministry Announces Economic Relief Measures Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

In the wake of the deadly Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, which has affected the global economy, India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today announced relief...

March 24, 2020

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Anjana Parikh

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Budget 2020: For Renewable Energy, “The Devil is in the Detail”

On February 1, 2020, when Finance Minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman announced the Budget for the financial year (FY) 2020-21, with a budget allocation ₹220 billion (~$3....

February 4, 2020

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Anjana Parikh

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Solar
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Budgetary Allocation for Solar Increases by 1% While Coal Gets a 48% Boost in 2019-20

In the recently announced budget for FY 2019-2020, there is a very slight increase in the budgetary allocation of funds for the solar energy sector when compared to the...

July 10, 2019

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Saumy Prateek

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Solar

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