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Great Pace towards Electrification

Civil service chronicle subscription To expedite electrification process, current government has launched `Saubhagya Scheme' under which free electricity connections to all households in rural and poor families in urban areas will be provided. In case where grid connection is not feasible a Solar Photovoltaic based standalone system for un-electrified households located in remote and inacces­sible villages / habitations will be provided.India's clean energy ambition also upscpattern includes making India to be 100% on Electric Vehicles (EVs) by 2030. To give im­petus to the EVs mission in India by offering subsidies, the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid &) Electric Vehicles (FAME) India Scheme was announced in 2015. Meanwhile, the announcement of FAME-II policy is likely to be delayed as Prime Minister Office has suggested that the proposed subsidy should be given for batteries to make them affordable rather than on vehicles. Owing to high cost of lithium-ion batteries which are imported, e-vehicles in India are expensive. pcsexam Thus, the current energy order dominated by the hydro­carbon has started to get disrupted by emergence of energy transition. India's roadmap to clean energy transition is based on the premise of its Nationally Determined Con­tribution and fall in solar tariffs have offered more scope for investments in clean energy technologies. Wherein, not only energy efficient solution to natural gas usage, a cleaner fossil fuel, but also use of renewables are promoted in a big way. shankar ias academy This provides an opportunity to India to reset its energy mix towards clean energy sources.