Today, Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi has launched a National Programme for LED street and LED home lighting, in New Delhi. Speaking on the occasion, the Prime Minister called for making energy conservation through the spread of LED bulbs, a people’s movement. He noted that it is much more economical to conserve power, than to produce power. However, he added, it is much more difficult to conserve power, than to produce power, because while one producing entity can produce a large quantity of power, it requires the active participation of crores of people to conserve that amount of power. Therefore, he called for generating awareness among people for the same. He called for extensive involvement of celebrities and eminent citizens in these programmes, who could motivate people to adopt LED bulbs.
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 savings of 7000 units of energy each month. The Lt. Governor Delhi, Shri Najeeb Jung, the Union Minister for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, Dr. Harsh Vardhan and the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power, Coal and New and Renewable Energy, Shri Piyush Goyal are also seen.
