The Scope of these Guidelines is to provide the necessary policy framework and mechanism for selection and implementation of 2000 MW Grid-connected solar PV power projects with Viability Gap Funding under Phase-II, Batch-III of JNNSM. These guidelines are independent and will have no bearing on the projects already selected under earlier schemes of NSM Phase-I & Phase-II. One of the main thrusts of this batch is to further encourage competitiveness through scaling up of Project sizes and introduction of efficient and transparent e-bidding and e-auctioning processes.