As part of National Climate Change Policy, Indian government is planning to raise the installed capacity of renewable energy by the year 2030 to:
350 GW
This question turns on a distinction between two different targets set for two different years, and the year named in the question decides which figure applies.
The target for 2030 is 350 GW. In the climate commitment India submitted ahead of the Paris conference in 2015, the country undertook to draw about 40 per cent of its installed electric power capacity from non fossil sources by 2030, and the renewable capacity implied by that undertaking was of the order of 350 GW. This is the figure the question asks for.
The figure 175 GW is the well known nearer term target, announced in 2015 for the year 2022, made up of 100 GW of solar, 60 GW of wind, 10 GW of biomass and 5 GW of small hydro power. Because it is quoted so often, it is the natural trap in this question, and reading the year carefully is what separates the two.
The intermediate values of 200 GW and 250 GW correspond to no announced national target and are included to fill the option set.
The broader policy context is the National Action Plan on Climate Change, adopted in 2008, which runs through eight national missions. The National Solar Mission is the one directly concerned with renewable capacity, and its own solar target was revised sharply upward in 2015 as part of the same push.
Hence the planned installed capacity of renewable energy by 2030 is 350 GW.
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