Host Country Agreement with International Solar Alliance .

• India has signed Host Country Agreement with International Solar Alliance .
• The agreement will give ISA a juridical personality and gives it power to contract, to acquire and dispose  movable and immovable properties also to institute and defend legal proceedings
• It also provides privileges,  tax concessions and immunities for independently discharge its function and programmes.
• ISA becomes the first international intergovernmental treaty based organization is headquartered in India (Gwal Pahari, Gurgaon, Haryana).

About International Solar Alliance (ISA):

• ISA is an Indian Initiative jointly launched by India and France in sideline of COP-21 on November 30 2015 at Paris, France
• International Solar Alliance (ISA) has become treaty –based international Intergovernmental organization in December 2016 which is headquartered in India located in the campus of National Institute of Solar Energy, Gurgaon.
• ISA aims at addressing obstacles on using solar energy efficiently and will help to utilise Solar energy efficiently in the solar energy rich countries. .
• In simple, it is an association of countries with the aim to increase the production of Solar Energy.
• As of now 44 countries have signed and 15countries ratified the framework agreement of the ISA.
• Most of the member countries are who either fully or partially lay between Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer.
• India has taken leadership to share its technology and funds to some African Countries ( which lack in fund and technology) to harness the solar energy.
• Currently it has 4 ongoing programmes Scaling Solar Applications for Agricultural Use, Affordable Finance at Scale, Scaling Solar Mini Grids and Scaling Solar Rooftop.
• The founding day of ISA Celebrated on 11^th March 2018.