With a clear focus on green hydrogen, we will invest in expanding production, developing technologies and aim to become a major green hydrogen production hub.

The 2024 manifesto's green hydrogen promise names no number: "With a clear focus on green hydrogen, we will invest in expanding production, developing technologies and aim to become a major green hydrogen production hub." The mission it refers to does carry a number, and it is the natural benchmark — the National Green Hydrogen Mission, approved in January 2023, aims "to establish green hydrogen production capacity of 5 Million Metric tonnes per annum by 2030".

Against that, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy's answer of 12 August 2026 sets out what has been awarded. Under the SIGHT programme, "7,56,100 Metric Tonnes per Annum (MTPA) of green hydrogen production capacity stands awarded to 16 companies" and "3000 MW per annum of electrolyser manufacturing capacity has been awarded to 15 companies". Roughly 15 per cent of the 2030 production goal has been allocated, four years out.

Demand-side contracting has started, which matters more than it sounds: green hydrogen fails commercially without buyers. "Green Ammonia Sale and Purchase Agreements have been signed for the production and supply of 6,70,000 Metric Tonnes per Annum (MTPA) of Green Ammonia… to 11 fertilizer units across India", and 30,000 tonnes a year has been awarded for supply to the refineries of Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum, Hindustan Petroleum and Numaligarh. Alongside these sit four steel-sector pilots, four hydrogen valley innovation clusters at Jodhpur, Odisha, Pune and Kerala, twelve pilots deploying 70 hydrogen-fuelled vehicles with 16 refuelling stations, seven testing facilities, 27 R&D projects and four centres of excellence.

Then the spending. "As on 6th August 2026, an expenditure of ₹292.45 crores has been incurred under the National Green Hydrogen Mission." The approved outlay is ₹19,744 crore. Three and a half years after Cabinet approval, one and a half per cent of the money has been spent.

Two of those facts have to be held together. Awards and agreements are commitments; production incentives under SIGHT are paid on output, so low spending is partly what you would expect from a scheme where plants are still being built. But it is also the clearest available signal of how much of this exists on the ground, which is: very little so far. The answer reports no figure at all for green hydrogen actually produced, and none has been published elsewhere that we hold.

The term runs to 2029 and the mission's own deadline is 2030, so the delivery here is recorded as too early. On the claim itself — investing in expanding production and aiming to become a major hub — the aiming is documented and the investing has barely begun. Our verdict is lacks context, and this entry should be read again when production figures are published.