Establishment of Solar Cities

Establishment of Solar Cities

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) is implementing a programme on ‘Development of Solar Cities’. This was stated by Shri. Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (I/C) for Power, Coal & New and Renewable Energy in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.  60  existing cities are planned to be developed as solar cities. 55 solar cities have already been taken up so far. The State/UT-wise list of the Cities identified for developing as Solar Cities is given below:- List of Solar Cities proposed, State/UT-wise SL. No State Cities for which in-principle approval given 1 Andhra Pradesh Vijaywada Mahbubnagar* 2 Assam Guwahati Jorhat 3 Arunachal Pradesh Itanagar 4 Chandigarh Chandigarh 5 Chhattisgarh Bilaspur Raipur 6 Gujarat  Rajkot Gandhinagar Surat 7 Goa Panji City 8 Haryana Gurgaon Faridabad 9 Himachal Pradesh Shimla Hamirpur 10 Karnataka Mysore Hubli-Dharwad 11 Kerala Thiruvananthapuram* Kochi* 12 Maharashtra Nagpur Thane Kalyan-Dombivli Aurangabad Nanded Shirdi 13 Madhya Pradesh Indore Gwalior Bhopal* Rewa 14 Manipur Imphal 15 Mizoram Aizawl 16 Nagaland Kohima Dimapur 17 Delhi New Delhi (NDMC area) 18 Orissa Bhubaneswar 19 Punjab Amritsar Ludhiana SAS Nagar (Mohali) 20 Rajasthan Ajmer Jaipur* Jodhpur 21 Tamil Nadu Coimbatore 22 Tripura Agartala 23 Uttarakhand Dehradun Haridwar & Rishikesh Chamoli –Gopeshwar 24 Uttar Pradesh Agra Moradabad Allahabad 25 West Bengal Howrah Madhyamgram New Town Kolkata 26 Jammu & Kashmir Leh* 27 Puducherry Puducherry * In-principle approval given only.