On its 75th Independence Day (15 August, 2021), India
launched the National Hydrogen Mission
("Mission") to meet its climate targets
and with an aim to make India the global hub for manufacturing of,
and largest exporter of, green hydrogen.
Interestingly, India had realized the potential of hydrogen
early on, and sometime in 2006, the then Government had issued the
'National Hydrogen Energy Road Map'. The idea of this
initiative was to achieve sustainable energy security with the
focus on hydrogen being used as a green fuel for transportation and
in power generation. This road map envisaged the development of
hydrogen to be in public private partnership model. However, much
did not materialize post that.
