The emergence of new solar energy technologies has been a potential game changer in the modern era of power generation. The flourishing solar energy technologies and associated R & D in the development of new technologies are boosted with the India's Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNSM). Centre for solar Energy Materials (CSEM) at ARCI has been established with a futuristic ideology of development and demonstration of various eco-friendly and economically viable technologies in the field of solar photovoltaic and solar thermal.