Ministry of New and Renewable Energy under its broad based Research, Development and Demonstration (RD&D) programme has been supporting projects at academic institutions, research and development organizations and industry for development of hydrogen and fuel cells. This was stated by Sh. Piyush Goyal, Minister of state for Power, Coal & New and Renewable Energy (IC) in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today. A total twenty six RD&D projects on hydrogen and fuel cells are presently under implementation with the support of the Ministry.