Assessing the Current Situation of Solar Home System (SHS) Program of IDCOL and Recommending Action Plan: Executive Summary

Abstract

The key objective of the present study is to assess the current SHS market situation and recommend an action plan for IDCOL so that they can make a strategy for soft exit from the program. More specifically, we assess the whole situation from several perspectives: (i) households‘ perspectives on the extent of current default situation, reasons for being defaulter and possibility of repayment; (ii) POs perspectives on default situation, current market of SHS, financial and administrative management etc.; (iii) Legal perspectives of Participatory Agreements and other contracts of IDCOL with POs; (iv) Financial auditing of the main POs as well as IDCOL to assess their financial situation in the face of dwindling SHS market; and (v) instructional perspective of the SHS program.