{"id":111220,"date":"2021-03-26T09:55:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T09:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=111220"},"modified":"2021-03-26T09:55:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T09:55:11","slug":"gram-ujala-scheme-launched-in-varanasi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/gram-ujala-scheme-launched-in-varanasi\/","title":{"rendered":"Gram Ujala scheme Launched in Varanasi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Consider the following statements regarding Gram Ujala scheme \u2013<br>i) It is launched by Power and new and renewable energy minister, Raj Kumar Singh, on March 24, 2021 in Varanasi.<br>ii) It is a scheme of Convergence Energy Services Limited (CESL) which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) .<br>iii) Its aim is to provide world\u2019s cheapest LED bulbs across rural areas.<br>Which of the following are correct?<\/strong><br>a) i, ii<br>b) ii,iii<br>c) iii,i<br>d) i, ii,iii<br><strong>Ans: d<br>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Union Minister of State (I\/C) for Power &amp; New and Renewable Energy, RK Singh has launched the GRAM UJALA programme in Varanasi of Uttar Pradesh on 24th March 2021.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Under the scheme Convergence Energy Services Limited, CESL, a wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Efficiency Services Limited -EESL, will distribute high quality LED bulbs, at an affordable cost in rural areas.<\/li><li>Under the scheme One crore 50 lakh LED bulbs will be distributed in phase 1 resulting in energy savings of 2025 million KWh\/year and CO2 reductions of 1.65 million T CO2\/year.<\/li><li>Gram Ujala scheme offers world\u2019s cheapest LED bulbs across rural areas at rupees 10.<\/li><li>Under the scheme 7 watt and 12 watt LED bulb will be given to rural households against the submission of working incandescent bulbs.<\/li><li>It will be implemented only in village of 5 districts where consumers can exchange upto 5 bulbs.<\/li><li>Scheme has already crossed 6,150 distribution mark in Arrah, Bihar within 2 days of launch of scheme.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By kameshwar shukla<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aninews.in\/news\/national\/varanasi-gram-ujala-scheme-launched-to-provide-led-bulbs-at-rs-10-each20210324230303\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.aninews.in\/news\/national\/varanasi-gram-ujala-scheme-launched-to-provide-led-bulbs-at-rs-10-each20210324230303\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Consider the following statements regarding Gram Ujala scheme \u2013i) It is launched by Power and new and renewable energy minister, Raj Kumar Singh, on March 24, 2021 in Varanasi.ii) It is a scheme of Convergence Energy Services Limited (CESL) which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) .iii) Its aim is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":111224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[2338],"class_list":["post-111220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enew","tag-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111220","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=111220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111225,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111220\/revisions\/111225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111220"}],"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=111220"},{"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=111220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}