India’s core infrastructure and energy industries have submitted an extensive wishlist to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman during a key pre-budget consultation held on Thursday, November 20.

They sought higher capital allocations, cheaper financing, and reforms to ease project execution across sectors ranging from solar power and highways to shipping and ports, sources told CNBC-TV18.

Solar sector seeks funding, domestic manufacturing support

According to sources, representatives from the solar energy sector strongly argued for a higher budgetary allocation to enable India to maintain its rapid pace of renewable capacity addition. With the government targeting ambitious solar installation milestones, the industry highlighted the need for a significant scale-up in financial support, e

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