MNRE withdraws serial number undertaking relief under PM Surya Ghar scheme
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has withdrawn a provision that allowed vendors to submit rooftop solar applications with repeated solar module or inverter serial numbers through a legal undertaking under the PM-Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana.
In an Office Memorandum (OM) issued on May 11, 2026, the Ministry stated that applications submitted after May 26, 2026, will no longer be permitted to use the undertaking-based mechanism where repeated serial numbers are detected on the National Portal.
The withdrawn provision had been introduced through an earlier OM dated April 12, 2025. Under that arrangement, vendors could submit a legal undertaking if duplicate module or inverter serial numbers were flagged during application processing.
The April 2025 order had also introduced integration of the Domestic Content Requirement (DCR) verification portal with the National Portal for the PM-Surya Ghar scheme. Vendors were required to enter a 16-digit DCR certificate number to retrieve module serial numbers directly from the portal.
The integration was aimed at improving traceability of domestically manufactured solar photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules while reducing instances of serial number duplication and mismatch.
With the latest order, MNRE has discontinued the undertaking-based relaxation for future applications, signalling tighter enforcement of DCR compliance requirements under the rooftop solar programme.
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