{"id":341803,"date":"2020-03-13T11:31:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T06:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=341803"},"modified":"2020-03-13T12:03:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T06:33:44","slug":"as-lending-to-solar-rooftop-moves-at-snails-pace-sbi-plans-to-scale-up-awareness-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/as-lending-to-solar-rooftop-moves-at-snails-pace-sbi-plans-to-scale-up-awareness-camps\/","title":{"rendered":"As lending to solar rooftop moves at snail\u2019s pace, SBI plans to scale up awareness camps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2016, the World Bank gave the State Bank of India a \u201cloan support\u201d of $625 million (\u20b9 4,125 crore at the then exchange rate), so that SBI could on-lend it to solar rooftop projects in India.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly four years down the line, SBI has lent only a third of it. In an email to BusinessLine at the end of January, the World Bank said: \u201cSo far, SBI has disbursed $211.42 million under the grid-connected rooftop solar programme of the World Bank.\u201d (An SBI official confirmed to BusinessLine that the number has not changed significantly since then.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2016, the World Bank gave the State Bank of India a \u201cloan support\u201d of $625 million (\u20b9 4,125 crore at the then exchange rate), so that SBI could on-lend it to solar rooftop projects in India. Nearly four years down the line, SBI has lent only a third of it. In an email to BusinessLine at the end of January, the World Bank said: \u201cSo far, SBI has disbursed $211.42 million under the grid-connected rooftop solar programme of the World Bank.\u201d (An SBI official confirmed to BusinessLine that the number has not changed significantly since then.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}