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Budget

2024-2025

Environment

and energy

security PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken forward the
The balance will be resolution of one earth, one sun. For this, PM Surya
Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana has been launched to install
maintained between
rooftop solar plants to enable one crore households
employment, in the country to get up to 300 units of free electricity
every month. More than 1.28 crore registrations have
development, and the been done in the scheme so far. 14 lakh applications
environment have been received, the government will encourage
to take this forward.
India is moving ahead with the goal of crore Up to
environmental protection and net zero 1 will get free 300
households
emissions by 2070 keeping in mind the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In units per month
the interim budget presented in February, the electricity
central government announced a strategy
to maintain energy security as well as high crore registrations
and efficient economic growth in terms of 1.28 so far and 14 lakh
availability, access, and affordability. Taking applications
that forward, under energy security, which
is the sixth priority of the budget for the
financial year 2024-25, the government has
announced to prepare a policy document
regarding a proper energy transition path
that will strike a balance between the
need for employment, development, and
environmental sustainability.

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