• Electricity (Rights of Consumers) Amendment Rules, 2021. Read more/download>>

• Order on Testing power system equipment for use in the Supply System & Network in the country for Cyber Security. Read more>>

• Seeking comments Draft Electricity (Promoting renewable energy through Green Energy Open Access) Rules, 2021. Read more>>

Guidelines for Encouraging Competition in Development of Transmission Projects and TBCB Guidelines.

• Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) to provide for Purchase Preference (linked with local content) in respect of Renewable Energy (RE) Sector Read more/Download>>

• Financial Support Scheme to Promote Innovative Industrial Organic Waste-to-Energy (IOWtE) Biomethanation Technologies and Business Models in India & GIS Waste Mapping Tool under GEF-MNRE-UNIDO Project Read more>>

• Invitation for Expression of Interest (EOI) for conducting evaluation of the programme/scheme for "Development of Solar Parks and Ultra Mega Solar Power Projects".

• Production Linked Incentive scheme: For enhancing India’s Manufacturing capabilities and exports, an outlay of Rs 1.97 lakh crore (€23.2 billion) has been announced in Union Budget 2021-22 for production linked incentive scheme for 13 key sectors for 5 years starting from fiscal year 2021-22.

• Ease of doing business and compliance burden: Initiatives taken for compliance reduction are focused on simplifying and digitizing various processes, reduction in documents in documents to be submitted along with applications, reduction in frequency of inspections, etc. 

• Foreign Direct Investment (FDI): 100% FDI is permitted in manufacturing sector under automatic route.

• Public Procurement: To promote domestic investment and usage of made in India products by the government, the public procurement (Preference to Make in India) order has been revised on 16.09.2020

• Industrial Corridor: The National Corridor Program (NICP) has been conceived to promote world class manufacturing facilities and develop futuristic industrial cities in India.   

Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry said that Make in India initiative has made significant achievements and presently focuses on 27 sectors under Make in India 2.0. Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade is coordinating action plans for manufacturing sectors, while Department of Commerce is coordinating service sectors. Accordingly, the Govt. is making continuous efforts under Investment Facilitation for implementation of Make in India action plans to identify potential investors. Investment Outreach activities are being carried out for enhancing international co-operation for promoting FDI and improve Ease of Doing Business in the country.

Investment in R&D in terms of Gross Expenditure on R&D (GERD) has been consistently increasing over the years and during the last 10 years, the GERD of India in gross terms has increased by 3 times. Govt. has been making concerted efforts to encourage private sector to invest into R&D. Corporates can invest in technology business incubators or contribute in research efforts carried out by institutions and national research laboratories as a part of their CSR. Several steps have been taken to incentivize the private sector’s R&D participation by improving the ease of doing business in the STI activities; introducing flexible tools for public procurement; creating avenues for collaborative STI funding through portfolio-based funding mechanisms such as Public-Private-Partnerships and other innovative hybrid funding mechanisms.

A collaborative model from industry to map best innovation practices will take India to the league of top 25 countries in the Global Innovation Index from the 48th rank in 2020 and make it the innovation powerhouse of the world, Commerce & Industry Minister said. Minister announced 80% reduction on fee for filing of IPRs for all recognised educational institution in India and abroad. The key achievements highlighted by Goyal include granting of 28,391 patents in 2020-21 as compared to 4,227 grants during 2013-14 (572% growth), reduction in time of patent examination from 72 months in December 2016 to 12-24 months in Dec 2020 and 1.42 million trademark registrations in last four years in comparison to 1.1 million during the previous 75 years (1940-2015).

Government of India has announced the National Hydrogen Mission for making hydrogen roadmap for the country. Department of Science & Technology (DST) has launched Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Program to support research on Hydrogen and Fuel Cell that aims to develop transformational technologies to reduce the cost of hydrogen production, distribution & storage, diversify feedstock available for economic hydrogen production, enhance flexibility of power grid, and reduce emissions through novel uses of low-cost hydrogen. DST has supported twenty-nine projects and two Energy Storage Platforms on Hydrogen under this program.

India makes clean energy commitments at UN summit India at the first leader-level meeting on energy under the UN General Assembly in 40 years has made commitments to increase renewable energy installed capacity to 450 GW by 2030 and develop and implement a National Hydrogen Energy Mission to scale up annual green hydrogen production to 1 MT by 2030. Also, it announced to begin a Production Linked Incentive Scheme to add 10 GW solar PV manufacturing capacity by 2025. India's announcements were among new multi-billion-dollar commitments made to countries to increase renewables and access to electricity and clean cooking technologies.

India and the UK have launched a new workstream to promote industrial energy efficiency, under the Clean Energy Ministerial's (CEM) Industrial Deep Decarbonization Initiative (IDDI), the power ministry said in a statement. This year, India, along with the Government of the United Kingdom, launched a new workstream to promote industrial energy efficiency under the CEM's IDDI coordinated by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). The IDDI initiative has been supported by Germany and Canada, with more countries expected to join soon. The objective is to infuse green technologies and stimulate demand for low-carbon industrial material. The commitment hinges on effective deployment of low carbon technologies in energy-intensive sectors like iron and steel, cement, petrochemicals. He elaborated that government policies have resulted in substantial savings in energy on the demand side.

On the 75th Independence Day, Prime Minister formally announced the launch of National Hydrogen Mission to push plans to generate carbon-free fuel from renewable. He also has set a target of 2047 for India to achieve self-reliance in energy. India can achieve self-reliance in energy through a mix of a gas-based economy, blending 20 % ethanol in petrol and moving towards electric mobility. India has achieved the target of 100 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity ahead of the set target. Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) is working on technology to develop hydrogen-spiked compressed natural gas or H-CNG.