A parliamentary committee has expressed disappointment at the slow progress of the development of solar parks in the country and pointed out that 11 out of the 50 proposed parks are yet to get approval from the ministry even as they are supposed to be commissioned by this year.
The parliamentary standing committee on energy, headed by Janata Dal (United) MP Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh, in its report said, “The committee in their recommendation had noted that out of 50, 11 solar parks were yet to get approval of the ministry even after lapse of more than three years, thereby rendering the whole exercise of setting targets meaningless when ministry-level approvals took such an unduly long time.”
The committee was “disappointed with the slow progress made as the ministry had been able to fully develop only eight solar parks in more than 5 years (2015-20)”, the report, presented in Parliament on Tuesday, said.
