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PM-KUSUM: 40,521 solar pumps with 60% subsidy

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Battle IAS UP current affairs title card: PM-KUSUM: 40,521 solar pumps with 60% subsidy (, 14 November 2025)
Asked by UPSCMains 2025 (GS1)1 PYQ

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What happened

  • The Cabinet approved installing 40,521 standalone solar pumps under PM-KUSUM in 2025–26 with a 60 per cent subsidy on the tender price. [UP Cabinet]

Background

  • Farmers will be selected on a first-come-first-served token system through the Agriculture Department portal. [UP Cabinet]

Why it matters

  • Solar pumps cut diesel costs for irrigation.

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How to use this in Mains

GS-VI farm energy

  1. Solar pumps cut diesel costs for irrigation.
Quotable data point

The Cabinet approved installing 40,521 standalone solar pumps under PM-KUSUM in 2025–26 with a 60 per cent subsidy on the tender price [UP Cabinet].

UP Information Dept: Cabinet decisions, 14 November 2025 (Hindi PDF)

Exam angle

UPPCS

GS-VI: farm energy.

Practice MCQs

Original practice questions (not PYQs).

Practice · UPPCS

Subsidy on solar pumps under PM-KUSUM in UP (2025–26):

Answer (c) & explanation

Source: as cited in this article.

Official source: UP Information Dept: Cabinet decisions, 14 November 2025 (Hindi PDF)

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