The Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) is a major initiative of the Government of India to promote ecologically sustainable growth while addressing India’s energy security challenge with active participation from the States. It will also constitute a major contribution by India to the global effort to meet the challenges of climate change. The objective of the Mission is to establish India as a global leader in solar energy, by creating the policy conditions for its large scale diffusion across the country as quickly as possible. The Mission had set a target, amongst others, for deployment of grid connected solar power capacity of 20,000 MW by 2022 to be achieved in 3 phases (1000 MW in first phase up to 2012-13, 9000 MW in second phase from 2013 to 2017 and 10,000 MW in the third phase from 2017 to 2022). Currently, the Government of India is considering to substantially scaling up targets of solar capacity additions in the country to 100 GW by year 2022.MOREINFORMATIONDraft-ESMF
