Bathinda solar rooftop power project hits roadblock; officials tight-lipped
Six months after the launch of the ₹100-crore solar rooftop power project in Bathinda, uncertainty looms large over Punjab’s first-of-its-kind alternative energy infrastructure initiative as scores of these panels are lying non-functional.
The ambitious project was conceived by former finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal and rolled out in his Bathinda Urban constituency on December 11, 2021, two months before the state assembly elections. It was seen as a major initiative to bring people closer to renewable energy resources that would further provide a relief in terms of reduction in power bills.
Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) was the executing agency while the Bathinda municipal corporation did the initial groundwork, including identifying the probable number of beneficiaries and handing over a list of claimants.
