Model Solar Village

About Model Solar Village:

• It envisages to create one Model Solar Village in each district of India.
• Aim: To promote solar energy adoption and make village communities self reliant in meeting their energy needs.
• Funding: ₹800 crore overall financial outlay has been allocated for this component with ₹1 crore per selected Model Solar Village.
• Criteria:
  o For a village to be considered under the competition mode, it must be a revenue village with resident population size greater than 5,000 (or 2,000 for special category states).
  o The selection procedure follows a competition mode where eligibility for the ranked villages requires overall distributed renewable energy (RE) capacity installed 6 months after the potential candidate declaration by District Level Committee (DLC).
• The village in every district with the overall highest RE capacity will be awarded a ₹1 crore central financial assistance grant.
• Implementation: The implementation of this scheme will be done by State/UT Renewable Energy Development Agency and under supervision of District Level Committee (DLC).
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• Under the scheme, the central government will provide ₹75,000 crores worth 300 units of free electricity per month to its beneficiaries.
• Target: It aims at lighting up 1 crore households.
  Under the scheme, Urban Local Bodies and Panchayats would be incentivised to promote installation of the rooftop solar system in their jurisdictions.