Solar PLI scheme may be split

The ₹19,500 crore production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for solar power equipment is likely to be split into two or three buckets to include various companies that are at different levels of indigenous module making.

A senior government official said the scheme could be revised based on power and renewable energy minister R K Singh’s interaction with the industry last week. “We can divide the PLI into different buckets for polysilicon-to-modules making, wafers to modules and cells to modules manufacturing. This will promote manufacturing of all the components and include more players,” the official said.