New Delhi: India's National Solar Mission will aggressively target decreasing the cost of solar power.

"Capacity addition targets and policy instruments under the National Solar Mission have been structured to capitalise on and to push-for aggressive cost reduction in solar energy systems in the coming years," Ministry of New and Renewable Energy(MNRE) Director B Bhargava said.

He said that the phase 1 of the mission will be quite critical as a mode for learning the ropes in implementing in increasing, which will be applied to the next two phases, reports IANS.

Under phase 1, only 5 per cent of the total target was been released, while phase 2 has target of 3,000-4,000 megawatt of grid-connected solar power generation.

"It (second phase) could be up scaled if cost reduction in solar energy technologies takes place at an early stage," Bhargava said.

The Chairman of state-run Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency, Debashish Majumdar also said that the National Solar Mission was creating a large amount of opportunities for the stakeholders in the sector.

"However, to capitalise on these opportunities one needs information and knowledge and therefore it is extremely important to build capacity in the sector," Majumdar said.