Ujala Scheme , Vidyut Pravah & Urja Mobile App

Urja Mobile App

• The app is developed by Power Finance Corporation on behalf of Ministry of Power for Urban Power Distribution Sector to enhance consumer connect with the Urban Power Distribution sector by providing information of IT enabled towns on important parameters which concern the consumers like outage information, timely release of connections, addressing complaints, power reliability etc.
• The app will work as manifestation of Prime Minister’s principle of good governance i.e. People focus, co-operative federalism.

Pradhan Mantri UJALA (Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LED for all) Yojana

• Thisis launched in Goa with a target of replacing approximately 15 lakh LED bulbs, impacting nearly 5 lakh households.
• Under the scheme, consumers are entitled to 3 LED bulbs of 9W each at a subsidized rate of Rs.25/, as against a market price of Rs.300-350.
• Under India’s commitment to achieving 30-35% reduced carbon emissions, the country has recognized energy efficiency as a key mitigation strategy. Therefore, the government is committed to executing schemes like UJALA.
• State governments are voluntarily adopting this scheme and the scheme is already present in over 13 states.
• EESL would be starting distribution in three more states within a month.The progress of ongoing LED distribution process can be tracked on
• The UJALA scheme has played a significant role in creating awareness about energy efficient lighting. In 2014-15, the total number of LED bulbs that were distributed was mere 30 lakhs. The number of LED bulbs distributed in 2015-16 has crossed 15 crore, where 9 crore LED bulbs were distributed under UJALA and the remaining were contributed by the industry. For this year, the Government of India is confident of distributing an additional 20 crore LED bulbs. Sustained efforts under UJALA, coupled with industry support, will help the government achieve its objective of replacing 77 crore inefficient bulbs by March 2019.
• Efficient domestic lighting is one of the largest contributors to energy savings globally and the distribution of 10 crore LED bulbs in India has led to savings of over 1,298 crore kWh annually. This number has also helped the country avoid capacity of about 2,600 MW. Most importantly, the country has benefitted from reduction of CO2 emission by over 1 crore tonnes annually. The scheme is executed by Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), a joint venture of PSUs under Ministry of Power.
• LED bulbs consume half the energy as that of CFLs and one tenth as that of incandescent bulbs.
• UJALA is the largest non-subsidised LED programme in the world.

“Vidyut Pravah”

• The Vidyut PRAVAH mobile application will provide date pertaining to market price of power from power exchange, value of current all India demand in GW and all India and State shortage including peak hour and total energy shortage.
• An all India Power map will showcase surplus power available at power exchange in current block, average market clearing price, current and previous day demand met at national level and previous day Peak hour Demand Shortage and Energy shortage etc. The State specific page will show the similar information of selected state.
• The main features include dashboard for All India summary, link for each states from All India Map and state specific pages on single click.
• The mobile application is freely available for download from the Google Playstore for both Android and iPhones.
• The UJALA scheme has now become a revolution and each person counts. Energy savings achieved from switching to LED bulbs is helping light up a home somewhere in the country.

By: Vishal