The primary stated objective in the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, under “the off-grid opportunity”, is “lighting homes of the power-deprived poor”. The mission’s strategy states its two-fold objective as “To scale up deployment of solar energy and to do this keeping in mind the financial constraints and affordability challenge in a country where large numbers of people still have no access to basic power and are poor and unable to pay for high cost solutions”. However, we observe that the objective is not being met with the current guidelines. Our comments and suggestions are included in the report below.