{"id":14494,"date":"2021-03-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/uncategorized\/22-03-2021\/gram-ujala-scheme\/"},"modified":"2021-03-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T00:00:00","slug":"gram-ujala-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/22-03-2021\/gram-ujala-scheme","title":{"rendered":"Gram Ujala Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recently, the Government has launched the <strong>Gram Ujala scheme from Arrah, Bihar<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Scheme<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Under it, <strong>high-quality and energy-efficient LED bulbs<\/strong> will be given for <strong>Rs. 10 per piece<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>The government\u2019s previous <strong>Unnat Jyoti by Affordable Lighting for All<\/strong> (UJALA) <strong>scheme<\/strong> had cut LED bulb prices to <strong>Rs. 70 apiece<\/strong> from around Rs. 310 in 2014.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The bulbs are offered by <strong>Convergence Energy Services Ltd <\/strong>(CESL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of <strong>Energy Efficiency Services Ltd<\/strong> (EESL).<\/li>\n<li>Under the <strong>United Nations\u2019 Clean Development Mechanism<\/strong> (CDM), the scheme will claim carbon credits.\n<ul>\n<li>It will be <strong>financed<\/strong> entirely through <strong>carbon credits <\/strong>and will be the <strong>first such programme <\/strong>in India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Carbon credit buyers will also be <strong>sought through an open process <\/strong>based on initial discussions with the market.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>balance cost and margin<\/strong> on the LED cost will be <strong>recouped through the carbon credits <\/strong>earned.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Significance<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It will have a significant impact on <strong>India&#8217;s climate change action energy savings of 2025<\/strong> million kWh\/year and <strong>CO2 reductions<\/strong> of 1.65 million tonnes CO2\/year.<\/li>\n<li>It will also <strong>enable better illumination<\/strong>, <strong>at an affordable price<\/strong>, leading to a better standard of life, financial savings, more economic activity, and better safety for rural citizens.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>removes the price barrier<\/strong> for <strong>rural consumers<\/strong>. In addition, the energy savings garnered will reduce a household&#8217;s energy outlay,<strong> enabling higher disposable income and savings<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"width:735px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background-color:#fff2cc; width:6.5in\">\n<p><strong>Unnat Jyoti by Affordable Lighting for All (UJALA) Scheme<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>zero-subsidy scheme<\/strong> launched in <strong>2015<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is also known as the <strong>LED-based Domestic Efficient Lighting Programme<\/strong> (DELP) and is the <strong>world\u2019s largest domestic lighting project<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aim: <\/strong>To promote the efficient usage of energy for all i.e., its consumption, savings and lighting.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eligibility: <\/strong>Every domestic household having a metered connection can get the LED bulbs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Achievements so far:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>EESL has distributed over 36.69 crore LED bulbs across India, which has resulted in\n<ul>\n<li>Estimated energy savings of 47.65 billion kWh per year.<\/li>\n<li>Avoided peak demand of 9,540 MW.<\/li>\n<li>Estimated GreenHouse Gas (GHG) emission reduction of 38.59 million tonnes CO2 per year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It has helped in the <strong>growth of domestic LED markets<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It has helped to<strong> bring down the average household electricity bills<\/strong> by 15%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Clean Development Mechanism<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is defined in <strong>Article 12 of the Kyoto Protocol<\/strong>, which <strong>allows<\/strong> a country with an emission-reduction or emission-limitation commitment<strong> to implement an emission-reduction project<\/strong> in developing countries.<\/li>\n<li>Such projects can<strong> earn saleable Certified Emission Reduction <\/strong>(CER) <strong>credits<\/strong>, which can be counted towards meeting <strong>Kyoto targets<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>first global, environmental investment and credit scheme of its kind<\/strong>, providing a standardized emissions offset instrument, CERs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Carbon Credits<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A carbon credit is a <strong>permit that allows the company that holds it to emit a certain amount of CO2 or other greenhouse gases<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>One credit <\/strong>permits the<strong> emission of a mass equal to one tonne of carbon dioxide<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>These were devised as a <strong>market-oriented mechanism<\/strong> to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.<\/li>\n<li>Companies get a set number of credits, which <strong>decline over time<\/strong>. They <strong>can sell any excess<\/strong> to another company.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/news\/india\/india-launches-10-led-bulb-for-rural-areas-11616147268047.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In News Recently, the Government has launched the Gram Ujala scheme from Arrah, Bihar. About the Scheme Under it, high-quality and energy-efficient LED bulbs will be given for Rs. 10 per piece. The government\u2019s previous Unnat Jyoti by Affordable Lighting for All (UJALA) scheme had cut LED bulb prices to Rs. 70 apiece from around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[36,31,26],"class_list":["post-14494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-conservation","tag-government-policies-interventions","tag-gs-3"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2023\/07\/7617881current-affairs.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}