Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, Mines New & Renewable Energy and Mines has recently informed the Lok Sabha that a total of 852 Solar PV based projects have been operational under Decentralized Distributed Generation (DDG) of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) implemented by Ministry of Power as on 31st January, 2017. MNRE, DDUGJY, DDG