{"id":13509,"date":"2016-07-12T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=13509"},"modified":"2016-07-12T11:24:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T11:24:00","slug":"world-bank-approved-625-million-support-grid-connected-rooftop-solar-program-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/world-bank-approved-625-million-support-grid-connected-rooftop-solar-program-india\/","title":{"rendered":"World Bank Approved $625 Million to Support Grid Connected Rooftop Solar Program in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Recently the World Bank Board has approved a $625 million loan to support the Government of India\u2019s program to generate electricity from widespread installation of rooftop solar photo-voltaic (PV). The program will be implemented by which of the following bank?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) State Bank of India<br \/>\n(b) Reserve Bank of India<br \/>\n(c) HDFC<br \/>\n(d) Bank of Baroda<br \/>\n<strong> Ans: (a)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 13 May 2016 the World Bank Board approved a $625 million loan to support the Government of India\u2019s program to generate electricity from widespread installation of rooftop solar photo-voltaic (PV).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Board also approved a co-financing loan of $120 million on concessional terms and a $5 million grant from Climate Investment Fund\u2019s (CIF) Clean Technology Fund.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The project will finance the installation of at least 400 MW of Grid Connected Rooftop Solar Photovoltaic (GRPV) across India.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The project will be implemented by the State Bank of India (SBI). SBI will on-lend funds to solar PV developers\/aggregators and end-users.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/news\/press-release\/2016\/05\/13\/world-bank-approves-625-million-to-support-grid-connected-rooftop-solar-program-in-india\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/news\/press-release\/2016\/05\/13\/world-bank-approves-625-million-to-support-grid-connected-rooftop-solar-program-in-india<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/world-bank-approves-aid-for-indias-solar-programme\/article8607725.ece?textsize=small&amp;test=2\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/world-bank-approves-aid-for-indias-solar-programme\/article8607725.ece?textsize=small&amp;test=2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently the World Bank Board has approved a $625 million loan to support the Government of India\u2019s program to generate electricity from widespread installation of rooftop solar photo-voltaic (PV). The program will be implemented by which of the following bank? (a) State Bank of India (b) Reserve Bank of India (c) HDFC (d) Bank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[2338],"class_list":["post-13509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enew","tag-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}