New Delhi With banks and financial institutions unable to offer liberal funding to solar power projects due to Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) stringent sector exposure limit norms, developers have urged the government to treat solar industry as a separate sector to facilitate its financing.

The issue was raised by solar project developers at the ongoing consultations with the government to finalise plan for the second phase of capacity addition under the national solar mission where fund requirement is estimated at over R1 lakh crore.