{"id":473190,"date":"2022-03-05T10:43:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T05:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=473190"},"modified":"2022-03-05T10:43:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T05:13:49","slug":"led-bulb-scheme-has-saved-rs-20000-crore-in-household-power-bills-pm-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/led-bulb-scheme-has-saved-rs-20000-crore-in-household-power-bills-pm-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"LED bulb scheme has saved Rs 20,000 crore in household power bills: PM Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government\u2019s \u2018Ujala\u2019 LED bulb scheme has saved Rs 20,000 crore in power bills of the middle-class and poor households so far, prime minister Narendra Modi said on Friday, stressing the need for sustainable energy to fuel sustainable growth.<br \/>\n\u201cFree distribution of 37 crore LED bulbs under the Ujala scheme has saved 48,000 million kilowatt-hour, resulted in savings of Rs 20,000 crore for middle-class and poor household and reduced annual carbon emission by 4 crore tonne. Use of LED bulbs in streetlights is saving civic bodies Rs 6 crore annually,\u201d Modi said addressing a renewable energy ministry webinar on energy for sustainable growth.<br \/>\nThe Ujala scheme was launched in 2016 during Modi\u2019s first term in office as part of a larger plan to reduce India\u2019s carbon footprint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government\u2019s \u2018Ujala\u2019 LED bulb scheme has saved Rs 20,000 crore in power bills of the middle-class and poor households so far, prime minister Narendra Modi said on Friday, stressing the need for sustainable energy to fuel sustainable growth. \u201cFree distribution of 37 crore LED bulbs under the Ujala scheme has saved 48,000 million kilowatt-hour, resulted in savings of Rs 20,000 crore for middle-class and poor household and reduced annual carbon emission by 4 crore tonne. Use of LED bulbs in streetlights is saving civic bodies Rs 6 crore annually,\u201d Modi said addressing a renewable energy ministry webinar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}