India's Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan (PM-KUSUM) promotes:

Explanation

PM-KUSUM is aimed at de-dieselising the farm sector and improving farmers' income through solar energy. Its three-part design explains why option C is right: Component A covers 10 GW of solar plants on barren land; Component B covers 20 lakh standalone solar pumps; and Component C covers solarisation of 15 lakh grid-connected pumps. The official PM-KUSUM portal also says farmers can set up grid-connected solar power plants of up to 2 MW on barren or fallow land and sell electricity to the local DISCOM at a tariff fixed by the state regulator. That is why the scheme is about solar pumps and farmer-linked solar power plants, not merely electricity supply in general.

Why the other options are wrong

• (A) Nuclear energy is outside the scheme's design, which is framed around solar pumps, solarisation of agricultural pumps, and farmer-owned solar power plants.
• (B) Diesel pumps are the opposite direction of the scheme, because the official portal describes PM-KUSUM as a measure for de-dieselisation of the farm sector.
• (D) Only wind energy is wrong because the scheme components listed in the explanation and on the official portal are solar-based, not wind-based.

Concept

This tests government schemes in renewable energy and agricultural infrastructure. It recurs in RAS because PM-KUSUM links clean energy, farm income, DISCOMs, and rural development in one policy instrument.

Source

• National Portal for PM-KUSUM

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