{"id":110880,"date":"2021-03-22T13:21:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T13:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=110880"},"modified":"2021-03-22T13:21:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T13:21:55","slug":"gram-ujala-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/gram-ujala-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Gram Ujala programme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Where did Union Minister R K Singh launch the Gram Ujala programme?<\/strong><br>(a) Arrah,Bihar<br>(b) Kushinagar,Uttar Pradesh<br>(c) Mayurbhanj,Odisha<br>(d) Kanker,Chhattisgrah<br><strong>Answer: (a)<br>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 19 March 2021, R K Singh, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge), Power Ministry launched the GRAM UJALA programme in Arrah, Bihar.<\/li><li>Under the programme, LEDs (7 watt and 12-Watt LED bulbs with 3 years warranty) will be available for only Rs 10 each for each household, in exchange for working condition old incandescent lamps. Each household will get up to 5 LEDs.<\/li><li>In the first phase of this programme, 15 million (1.5 crore) LED bulbs will be distributed across villages of Aarah (Bihar), Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh), Vijaywada (Andhra Pradesh), Nagpur (Maharashtra), and village in western Gujarat.<\/li><li>The programme will provide clean energy access and make a significant contribution towards mitigating climate change and achieving a sustainable future.<\/li><li>\u2018Gram Ujala\u2019 programme will be financed entirely through utilizing carbon credits and will be the first such programme in India.<\/li><li>The \u2018Gram Ujala\u2019 programme will have a significant impact on India\u2019s climate change action energy savings of 2025 million KWh\/year and CO2 reductions of 1. 65 million T CO2\/year.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By-Amar Mani Upadhyay<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1706010\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1706010<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Where did Union Minister R K Singh launch the Gram Ujala programme?(a) Arrah,Bihar(b) Kushinagar,Uttar Pradesh(c) Mayurbhanj,Odisha(d) Kanker,ChhattisgrahAnswer: (a)Related facts: On 19 March 2021, R K Singh, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge), Power Ministry launched the GRAM UJALA programme in Arrah, Bihar. Under the programme, LEDs (7 watt and 12-Watt LED bulbs with 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":110881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[2344],"class_list":["post-110880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nnews","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110882,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110880\/revisions\/110882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}