{"id":225060,"date":"2023-02-04T19:19:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T13:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=225060"},"modified":"2023-02-22T11:41:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T06:11:06","slug":"govt-extends-deadline-for-laggard-solar-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/govt-extends-deadline-for-laggard-solar-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt. extends deadline for laggard solar scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cGovt. extends deadline<\/b> <b>for laggard<\/b> <b>solar scheme<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on <b>4th February 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The deadline for the PM KUSUM scheme to install 30,000 MW solar power capacity in rural India by 2022 has now been pushed to March 2026<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is <\/b><b>Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha Evam Uttham Mahabhiyan(PM-KUSUM)?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Launched in:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Nodal Ministry:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ministry of New and Renewable Energy<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Aim:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To provide energy and water security to farmers, enhance their income, de-dieselise the farm sector and reduce environmental pollution.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Components: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PM-KUSUM scheme supports three different kinds of installations, known as the three components of the scheme as given below:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2013 Component-A: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10,000 MW of decentralized ground-mounted grid-connected renewable power plants of individual plant size up to 2 MW.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2013 Component-B<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Installation of 20 lakh standalone solar-powered agricultural pumps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2013 Component C<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Solarisation of 15 lakh existing grid-connected Agriculture pumps.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Must read: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/revitalising-pm-kusum\/\">Revitalising\u00a0PM-KUSUM<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cGovt. extends deadline for laggard solar scheme\u201d published in The Hindu on 4th February 2023. What is the News? The deadline for the PM KUSUM scheme to install 30,000 MW solar power capacity in rural India by 2022 has now been pushed to March 2026. What is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/govt-extends-deadline-for-laggard-solar-scheme\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Govt. extends deadline for laggard solar scheme<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,956,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-225060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700230172},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}