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Tentative Programme of the "National Meet on Solar Cities"

National Meet on Solar Cities to be held on 20th June, 2014 in Chandigarh

June 12, 2014. By Moulin

The Tentative program of the "National Meet on Solar Cities" organised by MNRE, which is to be held on 20th June 2014, Chandigarh is as follows:

Time	Session

10:00 - 10:30	Registration
10:30 - 11:30	Inaugural Session
	• Welcome by Shri Tarun Kapoor, Joint Secretary, MNRE
	• Address by Advisor to the Administrator, UT of Chandigarh
	• Inaugural Address by Shri Naved Masood, Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs
	• Address by Chief Secretaries of Punjab and Haryana
	• Special Address by Shri Upendra Tripathy, Secretary, MNRE
	• Vote of Thanks by Shri Santosh Kumar, Director, CREST
11:30 - 11:45	Tea Break
11:45 - 13:30	Session - I : Financing and Action Plans
	On Panel - MNRE, NHB, CII, Municipal Corporation, SNAs, GIZ, Channel Partners
11:45 - 11:55	• Present Status and further action plans for Solar Cities - MNRE
11:55 - 12:05	• Grid Connected Rooftop applications in Delhi- Power Grid Corporation of India
12:05 - 12:15	• Solar Rooftop - The German Experience - GIZ
12:15 - 12:25	• Corporate Partnership for Solar Cities - Corporate Affairs
12:25 - 12:35	• Investment opportunities and financing in Solar Cities - CII, FICCI, NHB
12:35 - 12:45	• Multi lateral and Bilateral Support - GIZ, World Bank, UNDP, US etc.
12:45 - 12:55	• Green Credit for Citizens in Solar Cities - RBI
12:55 - 13:15	Open Discussion
13:15 -14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 - 17:00	Session - II— Implementations Issues, and Status Review for Solar Cities
14:00 - 15:00	• Implementations Issues - SNAs and Municipal Corporations
	• Review of Status and further action plans of Solar Cities (State-wise):
	(Implementation of Master Plan, Status of Solar City Cell, RE Projects Installations in City, Proposals for RE Projects, Bye-laws relating to Renewable Energy in place/proposed and Action Plan)
	Andhra Pradesh (Mahbubnagar, Vijayawada), Assam (Guwahati, Jorhat), Arunachal Pradesh, (Itanagar), Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh (Bilaspur, Raipur), New Delhi, Goa (Panaji City & Environs), Gujarat (Gandhinagar, Rajkot, Surat), Haryana (Faridabad, Gurgaon), Himachal Pradesh (Hamirpur, Shimla), Karnataka (Hubli-Dharwad, Mysore), Kerala (Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram), Madhya Pradesh (Bhopal, Gwalior, Indore, Rewa), Maharashtra (Shirdi, Nagpur, Kalyan-Dombiwali, Thane, Aurangabad, Nanded), Mizoram (Aizawl), Manipur (Imphal), Nagaland (Kohima, Dimapur), Odisha (Bhubaneswar), Punjab (Amritsar, Ludhiana, Mohali), Rajasthan (Ajmer, Jodhpur, Jaipur), Tamil Nadu (Coimbatore), Tripura (Agartala), Uttar Pradesh (Agra, Allahabad, Moradabad), Uttarakhand (Dehradun, Haridwar-Rishikesh, Chamoli-Gopeshwar), West Bengal (Howrah, Madhyamgram, New Town Kolkata).
	Representatives of respective Municipal Corporations and State Nodal Agencies to respond/present their status and views.

15:00 - 16:00	Inauguration of a Grid Connected Rooftop Project in Chandigarh by Secretary, MNRE
16:00 - 17:30	Site Visits of two other Grid Connected Rooftop Projects