{"id":9822,"date":"2020-09-04T16:38:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T11:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepunjabwire.com\/?p=9822"},"modified":"2020-09-04T16:38:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T11:08:52","slug":"homes-of-bpl-sc-bc-consumers-all-set-to-illuminate-with-led-bulbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepunjabwire.com\/?p=9822","title":{"rendered":"HOMES OF BPL, SC &#038; BC CONSUMERS ALL SET TO ILLUMINATE WITH \u2018LED\u2019 BULBS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong> PSPCL LAUNCHES \u2018KIFAYATI LED BULB YOJNA\u2019 WORTH Rs. 8.63 CRORE: A VENU PRASAD<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chandigarh, September 4: Under the visionary guidance of the Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) has launched a novel initiative worth Rs. 8.63 crore aimed at providing viable power solutions to the people hailing from the Below Poverty Line (BPL), SC and BC backgrounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Divulging the details, the CMD PSPCL A Venu Prasad said that in accordance with the \u2018Kifayati LED Bulb Yojna\u2019, the each existing eligible consumer from BPL, SC and BC categories, availing electricity subsidy having sanctioned load upto 1 KW, would be provided with the 2 LED bulbs at just Rs. 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pointing out the benefits entailed under the scheme, the CMD said that these LED bulbs would save the electricity upto 80-90 percent and are long lasting (20,000 hours) with no chance of fire besides being environment friendly.<br>CMD also added that the consumers can avail the said scheme by contacting the concerned PSPCL office and depositing copy of current bill, identity proof and a self undertaking. BPL, SC and BC categories consumers upto 1 KW of connected load get electricity concession of 200 units per month. Subsidy on account of this for the year 2019-20 as approved by the PSERC is Rs 1598.47 Crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PSPCL LAUNCHES &lsquo;KIFAYATI LED BULB YOJNA&rsquo; WORTH Rs. 8.63 CRORE: A VENU PRASAD Chandigarh, September 4: Under the visionary guidance of the Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) has launched a novel initiative worth Rs. 8.63 crore aimed at providing viable power solutions to the people hailing from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2196,2195,2194],"class_list":["post-9822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-punjab","tag-kifayati-led-bulb-yojna","tag-a-venu-prasad","tag-pspcl"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepunjabwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepunjabwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepunjabwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepunjabwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepunjabwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepunjabwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9824,"href":"https:\/\/thepunjabwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9822\/revisions\/9824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepunjabwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepunjabwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepunjabwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepunjabwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}