Response to the National Solar Mission, which aims at generating 20,000 Mw of solar power in the country over the next decade, has been good so far.

In less than a year after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh launched the scheme, 300 bids for solar photovoltaic (PV) plants and 44 for solar thermal projects were received by NTPC Vidyut Vyapaar Nigam (NVVN), a nodal agency for the sale and purchase o