representative image Chandigarh: With the deadline for installation of mandatory rooftop solar power plants on homes installed in 500 square yards or more approaching, around 820 homeowners have applied for installation, and installation has already been completed in around 270 homes. .
The UT estate office had on September 6 issued reprimand notices to over 4,000 home owners with plot size of 500 square yards or more for not installing rooftop solar plants.
“Applications for installation are still being submitted, and we are expecting the number of applications to increase. Over a period of about a week, as the deadline approached, Chandigarh Renewable Energy and Science and Technology Promotion Society received approximately 200 applications (crest), “said a UT official.
UT Estate Office had given two months time for its establishment. solar panelsOr the plots had to be restarted.
Later, on the instructions of the UT Administrator, some relief was offered to landlords and the administration gave relaxation to those who had applied for establishment during the notice period.
Of the total 6,408 houses with an area of one kanal and above, only 1,867 had completed the installation before the restoration notice was issued by the administration.
During the meeting of the state level coordination committee constituted for ‘PM Suryaghar: Free Electricity Scheme’ on September 4, UT advisor Rajeev Verma expressed concern about the low number of registrations under the scheme in Chandigarh.
To address the issue of poor response, the Advisor had directed the Deputy Commissioner-cum-Estate Officer, UT, Chandigarh to take strict action against defaulters and issue property restoration notices to those home owners who fail to comply with the order. Have failed. To install solar power plant on a plot of 500 square yards and above.
The administration’s decision to issue the notice was strongly opposed by resident groups and political leaders, including city MP Manish Tewari. He has cited financial constraints and certain provisions of building bye-laws for those able to install rooftop solar plants.
A senior UT official said, ‘Several extensions have been given earlier also. The last and final time extension was given till March 2021. More than three and a half years have also passed since the last expansion. Now, the Government of India is running a good scheme ‘PM Surya Ghar-Muft Bijli Yojana’ for subsidy on solar rooftop systems. People should take advantage of that scheme.”
