NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scheme for LED bulb distribution here today under domestic efficient lighting programme and a National Programme for LED-based Home and Street Lighting, describing LED bulb as ‘Prakash Path’–way to light.
The Prime Minister also symbolically replaced one bulb in South Block with an LED bulb.
Replacement of all bulbs in South Block with LED bulbs will enable saving of 7,000 units of energy each month. Mr Modi called for making energy conservation through the spread of LED bulbs a people’s movement pointing out that conserving power was much more economical than producing. He, however, said it was much more difficult to conserve power than to produce it because while one producing entity could produce a large quantity of power, it required active participation of millions of people to conserve that amount of power.
He stressed the importance of generating awareness among people and called for extensive involvement of celebrities and eminent citizens in these programmes to motivate people to adopt LED bulbs.
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