Six successful years of UJALA and SLNP schemes

NewsBharati    06-Jan-2021 15:13:04 PM
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New Delhi, Jan 6: The UJALA (Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All) and SLNP (Street Lighting National Programme) schemes have completed six years of successful implementation. The two programmes aim to revamp household and public lighting system across the country. In coming years, the SLNP has plans to bring investment of Rs 8,000 crores by 2024 to cover entire rural India. More than 30 million LED street lights are to be installed by EESL (Energy Efficiency Services Limited) in the coming years.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on 5th January, 2015 launched the Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All(UJALA) to provide LED bulbs to domestic consumers with a target to replace 770 million incandescent bulbs with LED bulbs by March, 2019. EESL, a govt company under the administrative control of Ministry of Power, has been designated as the implementing agency for this programme. For domestic lights, EESL service model enables domestic households to procure LED lights at an affordable price of Rs 0.154 each and the balance on easy installment from their electricity bill.

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The UJALA programme is designed to reduce energy consumption in the lighting sector and to promote LED based efficient lighting products. Under UJALA, the EESL distributed 6.69 crores of LED bulbs. It has installed more than 1.14 crores of LED street lights. This has helped to save more than 55.33-billion-kilowatt hour of energy per year. The scheme helped to reduce Greenhouse gas emissions by 38.59 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year. The scheme distributed 72 lakhs of LED tube lights and 23 lakhs of energy efficient fans at affordable prices.
 
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Under SPLA, the EESL installed more than 1.1 crores of LED street lights. This helped to save 7.67 billion kilowatt hour of energy per year. The scheme helped to reduce the greenhouse gas emission by 5.29 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year. With the help of the scheme the municipalities were able to save Rs 5,210 crores in their electricity bills.
 
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Overall, the schemes have helped in the growth of domestic LED markets. They have helped to bring down the average household electricity bills by 15 per cent. The schemes have helped families to access better brightness in their homes and thereby improved their quality of life.