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Daily News Wrap-Up: Subsidy Delays Plague PM Surya Ghar Program

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The PM Surya Ghar Program, which aims to install 10 million rooftop solar projects across India, continues to grapple with challenges ranging from subsidy disbursements to incomplete information on the Jan Samarth Portal used for processing loans. Glitches have plagued the PM Surya Ghar National Portal for the past two months. With an outlay of ₹750 billion (~$9.04 billion), the program aims to increase residential rooftop solar capacity and empower households to generate electricity until 2026-27, but the sputtering rollout has cast a shadow on the target.

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