55 Cities Approved for Solar Cities
55 Cities Approved For Solar Cities. So far, 55 existing cities in 27 States/UTs are being developed as solar cities in the country under ‘Development of Solar Cities programme’.
So far, 55 existing cities in 27 States/UTs are being developed as solar cities in the country under ‘Development of Solar Cities programme’. This was stated by Sh. Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal & New and Renewable Energy in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today. State-wise list of approved solar cities is given below:-
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| Sr. No | State | Approved Solar Cities |
| 1 | Andhra Pradesh | Vijayawada Mahbubnagar* |
| 2 | Assam
| Guwahati |
| Jorhat | ||
| 3 | Arunachal Pradesh | Itanagar |
| 4 | Chandigarh | Chandigarh |
| 5 | Chhattisgarh | Bilaspur |
| Raipur | ||
| 6 | Gujarat | Rajkot |
| Gandhinagar | ||
| Surat | ||
| 7 | Goa | Panji City |
| 8 | Haryana | Gurgaon |
| Faridabad | ||
| 9 | Himachal Pradesh | Shimla |
| Hamirpur | ||
| 10 | Karnataka | Mysore |
| Hubli-Dharwad | ||
| 11 | Kerala | Thiruvananthapuram* |
| Kochi | ||
| 12 | Maharashtra | Nagpur |
| Thane | ||
| Kalyan-Dombivali | ||
| Aurangabad | ||
| Nanded | ||
| Shirdi | ||
| 13 | Madhya Pradesh | Indore* |
| Gwalior | ||
| Bhopal | ||
| Rewa | ||
| 14 | Manipur | Imphal |
| 15 | Mizoram | Aizawl |
| 16 | Nagaland | Kohima |
| Dimapur | ||
| 17 | Delhi | New Delhi (NDMC area) |
| 18 | Orissa | Bhubaneswar |
| 19 | Punjab | Amritsar |
| Ludhiana | ||
| SAS Nagar (Mohali) | ||
| 20 | Rajasthan | Ajmer |
| Jaipur* | ||
| Jodhpur | ||
| 21 | Tamil Nadu | Coimbatore |
| 22 | Tripura | Agartala |
| 23 | Uttarakhand | Dehradun |
| Haridwar & Rishikesh | ||
| Chamoli – Gopeshwar | ||
| 24 | Uttar Pradesh | Agra |
| Moradabad Allahabad | ||
| 25 | West Bengal | Howrah Madhyamgram New Town Kolkata |
| 26 | Jammu & Kashmir | Leh* |
| 27 | Puducherry | Puducherry |
*Only In-principal approval given.
