India is blessed with 300 sunny days throughout the year giving it a potential of approximately 5KW of solar power generation per day.
Our government has set an ambitious target of 20,000 MW of solar power generation by the year 2020 and exemplifying an typical working culture MNRE sanctioned 480MW of power project in the year 2010-11.
Now my curiosity is that, if we aim to install 500 MW of power plan per year it will lead to a combined capacity of 5000 MW and that too if each and every plant sanctioned is set up and is working at full capacity, isn’t that a bit lower than the targeted capacity of 20,000MW, it is by a whole 75%. My second question is that 480MW is sanctioned capacity, how much of it is going to see the light of the day(of sun if you might say so.), further out this how much of it will be available to the rural sector, as of today almost 55% of the school going children have to rely on fossil fuel to study at night due to erratic power supply.
This raises a serious question, “Is JNNSM heading to a fate similar to that of Sarve Siksha Abhiyan?”, its an open secret that “SSA” has reduced to just “Mid Day Meal”, there has not been the qualitative development among the poor as it was intended to, still we see it is the convent educated pupil who are in majority in beating the competition.
MNRE and IREDA will have to increase the sanctioned capacity by least ten folds and than at present executionrate we may have the targeted 20,000 MW capacity installed.
It is only then that sun will truly shine onn India for 365 days.
Our government has set an ambitious target of 20,000 MW of solar power generation by the year 2020 and exemplifying an typical working culture MNRE sanctioned 480MW of power project in the year 2010-11.
Now my curiosity is that, if we aim to install 500 MW of power plan per year it will lead to a combined capacity of 5000 MW and that too if each and every plant sanctioned is set up and is working at full capacity, isn’t that a bit lower than the targeted capacity of 20,000MW, it is by a whole 75%. My second question is that 480MW is sanctioned capacity, how much of it is going to see the light of the day(of sun if you might say so.), further out this how much of it will be available to the rural sector, as of today almost 55% of the school going children have to rely on fossil fuel to study at night due to erratic power supply.
This raises a serious question, “Is JNNSM heading to a fate similar to that of Sarve Siksha Abhiyan?”, its an open secret that “SSA” has reduced to just “Mid Day Meal”, there has not been the qualitative development among the poor as it was intended to, still we see it is the convent educated pupil who are in majority in beating the competition.
MNRE and IREDA will have to increase the sanctioned capacity by least ten folds and than at present executionrate we may have the targeted 20,000 MW capacity installed.
It is only then that sun will truly shine onn India for 365 days.
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