{"id":7228,"date":"2020-01-06T10:36:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T10:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=7228"},"modified":"2020-01-06T10:36:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T10:36:44","slug":"ujala-street-lighting-national-programme-complete-five-successful-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/ujala-street-lighting-national-programme-complete-five-successful-years\/","title":{"rendered":"UJALA &#038; Street Lighting National Programme Complete Five Successful years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SLNP is the world\u2019s largest streetlight replacement\nprogramme and UJALA is the world\u2019s largest domestic lighting project. Both have\nbeen spearheaded and implemented by Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL),\na joint venture of PSUs under the Ministry of Power, Government of India. Launched\nby Hon&#8217;ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on January 5th, 2015, the\nGovernment of India\u2019s zero subsidy Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All\n(UJALA) and LED Street Lighting National Programme (SLNP), marked its fifth\nanniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current\nAffairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the SLNP programme, over 1.03 crore smart LED\nstreetlights have been installed till date, enabling an estimated energy\nsavings of 6.97 billion kWh per year with an avoided peak demand of 1,161 MW\nand an estimated greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction of 4.80 million tCO2\nannually. LED streetlights have been installed in various states across the\ncountry, helping generate approximately 13,000 jobs to support GoI&#8217;s Make in\nIndia initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SLNP is the world\u2019s largest streetlight replacement programme and UJALA is the world\u2019s largest domestic lighting project. Both have been spearheaded and implemented by Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), a joint venture of PSUs under the Ministry of Power, Government of India. Launched by Hon&#8217;ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on January 5th, 2015, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":7229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[871],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-january-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7230,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228\/revisions\/7230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7228"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=7228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}