India’s rooftop solar program has supported over 5 million households with rooftop solar installations, while cumulative rooftop solar capacity commissioned under the scheme has reached 14.8 GW, according to the country’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE).
The milestone has been reached just over two years after the scheme’s launch. For comparison, around 794,000 rooftop solar installations were installed in the preceding decade.
The government scheme, known as PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana, is India’s flagship residential rooftop solar program. Implemented by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), the scheme is backed by funding of INR 750.21 billion ($8.6 billion).
MNRE says the program is adding around 100,000 households every six days, making it one of the world’s fastest-growing clean energy initiatives. The pace of installations has increased 3.2-fold over the past nine months, rising from 5,038 installations per day in October 2025 to nearly 16,328 per day in July 2026.
July 2026 recorded the highest monthly rooftop solar deployment under the scheme to date, with 506,000 households installing rooftop PV systems.
The ministry said it has disbursed INR 280.24 billion in subsidies directly to beneficiaries through India’s Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) system. It added that nearly 1.9 million households are now reporting zero electricity bills.
More than 1.2 million households earned a combined INR 4.21 billion from the sale of surplus electricity during the 2024-25 financial year, equivalent to additional annual income of around INR 3,500 per household from exporting electricity to the grid.
The scheme has also supported the growth of a nationwide rooftop solar ecosystem, with 34,219 registered vendors, including 29,469 active installers operating across the country. More than 232,000 people have received training through capacity-building programs supporting the rooftop solar value chain.
The program operates through a fully digital, end-to-end platform, enabling consumers to complete the entire process, from application to subsidy disbursement, online without physical paperwork or visits to government offices.
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