New Delhi, Sept. 11 -- India's new and renewable energy ministry is finalizing a roadmap to develop a local ecosystem to manufacture wafers, ingots and polysilicon in the country, used to make solar power cells and modules.

Addressing a review meeting with states on renewable energy, Union minister for new and renewable energy Pralhad Joshi said that the Centre has prepared a trajectory for indigenous manufacturing of wafers and ingots and is in the process of preparing a similar trajectory for local polysilicon manufacturing. He also asked states to make efforts to provide land and boost the solar equipment manufacturing ecosystem in the country.

In recent years, India has built over 100 GW of solar module manufacturing capacity, along...