Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM)

The Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, also known as National Solar Mission, is one of the eight key National Missions which comprise India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC). It was officially launched on January 11, 2010.

• The Mission has set the ambitious target of deploying 20,000 MW of grid connected solar power by 2022, which was revised to 1,00,000 MW by 2022 during June 2015.

Achievements

• Among the key achievements of the first two phases was establishing reverse bidding as the market-oriented procurement mechanism as against the practice of feed-in tariff and capital subsidies (which covers a share ....