The National Energy Efficiency and Conservation Policy established the framework to promote and to monitor various actions and behaviour on energy efficiency and conservation policy. 

The policy sets the following objectives: 1) to facilitate the productivity of industries through adoption of energy efficiency and conservation measures; 2) to strengthen the coordination among all the stakeholders including government agencies; 3) to create the enabling conditions for adoption of energy efficiency and conservation measures by  actors of the economy through guidelines,incentives and policy instruments; 4) to set realistic targets for improving energy efficiency in the short and long term; 5) to delineat the roles, responsibilities and mandates of relevant ministries and government institutions to implement various sections of the policy, etc.

The Energy Efficiency Roadmap 2030 covering the sectors of buildings, transport and industry was launched subsequently to this policy.