Ministry of Railways wins the PM Surya Ghar Excellence Award for solarising the most government buildings

5 November 2026

The Ministry of Railways was given the PM Surya Ghar Excellence Award on 5 November 2026 in the category for the maximum buildings solarised by Central Ministries and Departments. Vice President C. P. Radhakrishnan presented the award at the Renewable Energy Summit and Expo 2026 at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi. The award sits under PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana, the central rooftop solar scheme. Railways had identified 15,868 buildings as suitable for rooftop solar and has fitted systems on 12,495 of them. It has commissioned 351 MW of rooftop solar capacity against a target of 424 MW. Across the country, 25,984 of 39,135 identified buildings in 77 Central Ministries and Departments have been solarised. The Ministry plans to cover all remaining feasible buildings by March 2027.