Pradhan Mantri Solar Panel Yojana 2020: PM KUSUM Scheme Online Registration, Objectives, Eligibility & Benefits

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• Aadhar Card
• Postal address
• Farmer’s land documents like Khasra Khatauni etc.
• Declaration letter
• Bank account passbook
• Photograph
• mobile number

• Applicant must be a resident of India
• The beneficiary should be the only a farmer.
• The applicant must be a farmer.
• It is mandatory to have an Aadhaar card.
• The bank’s account number should also be there to apply.

1. 10,000 MW of Decentralized Ground Mounted Grid Connected Renewable Power Plants of individual plant size up to 2 MW. Component
2. Installation of 17.50 lakh standalone Solar Powered Agriculture Pumps of individual pump capacity up to 7.5 HP and Component
3. Solarisation of 10 Lakh Grid-connected Agriculture Pumps of individual pump capacity up to 7.5 HP.

All three components combined, the scheme aims to add a solar capacity of 25,750 MW by 2022. The total central financial support provided under the scheme would be Rs. 34,422 crore.

Under Component B, individual farmers will be supported to install standalone solar Agriculture pumps of capacity up to 7.5 HP. Under PM Kusum Scheme, 20 lakh farmers will be provided subsidies for setting up stand-alone solar pumps. Another 15 lakh farmers to be helped to solarise their grid-connected pump sets. This scheme will enable farmers to set up solar power generation capacity on their barren lands and to sell it to the power grid.

Prime Minister Solar Panel Plan Budget 2020

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the launch of Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan with the objective of providing financial and water security to farmers. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Ji announced the extension of the Prime Minister Solar Panel Scheme on Saturday 1 February 2020. The government has made another big announcement under this scheme that the government will give 60% of the total cost of the solar pump as a subsidy to the farmers.

Under the Kusum scheme, by 2022, three crore irrigation pumps are being run in the country with solar energy instead of electricity or diesel. According to the budget set by the government, a total of Rs 1.40 lakh crore will be spent on the Kusum scheme. The scheme has direct employment potential. Besides increasing self-employment, the proposal is likely to generate employment opportunities equivalent to 6.31 lakh job years for skilled and unskilled workers.

• The Government is formulating a Scheme ‘Kisan Urja Suraksha evamUtthaanMahabhiyan (KUSUM)’ which inter-alia aims to promote use of solar energy among the farmers.
• With the help of Kusum scheme, farmers can put solar panels on their land and use the electricity generated from it for agriculture. Uninterrupted power supply can be started in the village of the country by the electricity generated on the farmer’s land.

• PM KUSUM SCHEME 70 Percent Government Subsidy Offered for installing Solar pump. – PIB
• Cabinet approves launch Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan. – PIB
• Kusum Scheme will solarize agricultural pump sets to double the income of farmers by 2022.
• Pradhan Mantri Solar Panel Scheme will provide additional income to those farmers who will install solar power plants on their land
• This scheme will be transferred up to Rs 6000 per month.
• Under the solar plant, the farmer can easily grow vegetables, pulses etc.

• It was announced in the Union Budget 2018-19.
• To install solar power equipment, farmers will have to pay only 10%.
• The central government will give subsidy amount in the bank account to the farmers.
• Plants for solar energy will be set up on wastelands.
• Under Kusum Yojana, banks will give 30% amount as loan to farmers.
• The government will give 60% of the total cost of solar pump as subsidy to the farmers.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved launch of Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan (KUSUM) Scheme with the objective of providing financial and water security to farmers.
• Farmers can set up solar power projects on their barren land and use the generated energy. Moreover, farmers can also sell the excess energy to DISCOMS through grid setups to generate additional income.
• The central government has allocated Rs 48000 crore for the Kusum scheme for a period of ten years.
• The plan will begin with building a 10,000 MW solar plant on wastelands and providing 1.75 million off-grid agricultural solar pumps.

Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Block-14, CGO Complex,
Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110 003, India.
011-2436-0707, 011-2436-0404
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