50k LED bulbs sold since Sept

SHILLONG: Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), the firm that is implementing the Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All (UJALA) scheme in the State, has sold around 50,000 bulbs since September.
Speaking to The Shillong Times, Rounak Bandopadhyay, regional manager of EESL, said the firm has opened 27 centres in the State so far. The scheme was launched in Meghalaya in September.
There are 2.8 lakh consumers in the State and EESL, a JV of PSUs under the Ministry of Power, plans to sell 10 lakh bulbs in a year.
The firm has already signed an MoU with Meghalaya Power Distribution Corporation Limited to sell 20-watt LED tube light at a cost of Rs 230 and with three-year warranty, Bandopadhyay said.
Meghalaya can save 26 MW of power once the central scheme, launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in January 2015, is fully implemented, claimed the EESL regional manager.