Punjab Government will launch the Ujala awareness campaign on January 10 to promote energy efficiency measures in the State.
Irrigation and Power Minister Rana Gurjeet Singh would flag off 16 Ujala vans as part of this awareness campaign from VIP guest house, PSTCl in SAS Nagar after addressing a function to mark this occasion, said an official spokesman of Punjab Government
He said that these mobile vans are specially designed to reach each and every area of the region to promote Ujala lED bulbs, lED tube lights and energy efficient fans. These vans will have publicity material including details of distribution counters of EESl, he said.
Highlighting the achievements of Ujala programme, the spokesman said that after the launch of Ujala scheme on May 24 last year, Energy Efficiency Services ltd (EESl) has distributed approximately 6.5 lakh lED bulbs, 45000 lED tube lights and 10000 energy efficient fans till date.
“The distribution has achieved State an annual energy saving of 9 crore KWh. The use of energy efficient appliances also results in reduction of around 17 MW of peak demand, as well as an annual reduction of CO2 emission by 66000 tones”, he added.
Giving details regarding prices of products offered under EESl’s UJAlA programme, he said that domestic grid connected users are getting lED bulbs, lED tube lights and energy efficient BEE 5 star rated fans through designated kiosks spread across 15 districts in Punjab. The price of one lED bulb is `70, the ceiling fans costs `1,110 and energy efficient lED tube light costs `220.
The spokesman added that Balbir Singh Sidhu, MlA and Satish Chandra, Additional Chief Secretary Power would also address the function to be organised to kick start this awareness campaign, whereas Nitin Bhatt, Regional Manager (Punjab), EESl would brief on the UJAlA awareness program and A. Venu Prasad, CMD, PSPCl would deliver vote of thanks.