The deadline for the PM- KUSUM scheme by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy to install 30,000 MW solar power capacity in rural India by 2022, has now been pushed to March 2026.
- As of December 31, 2022, only 88.46 MW of solar capacity had been added; 181,058 solar pumps had been installed and 1,174 grid-connected pumps converted.
- The Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha Evam Uttham Mahabhiyan (PM- KUSUM) has three parts: having farmers install solar power plants worth 10,000 MW; installing 20 lakh solar-powered agriculture pumps that aren’t connected to the grid (o”-grid), and converting 15 lakh agriculture pumps, already connected to the grid, into solar.
