[New Delhi]174 More Villages Electrified:Consumers Alerted Against Fraudulent LEDs
Power Ministry Electrified 174 Villages During Last Week ; 9,134 Villages Electrified till date under DDUGJY
As per Power Ministry 141 villages have been electrified across the country during last week (from 18th to 24th July 2016) under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna (DDUGJY).
Out of these electrified villages,
12 villages belong to Arunachal Pradesh ,
82 in Meghalaya,
15 in Assam,
12 in Uttar Pradesh,
3 in Mizoram,
18 in Jharkhand,
3 in Rajasthan ,
11 in Odisha and
15 in Bihar,
1 each in Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Chhattisgarh .
Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) has alerted its consumers of fraudulent websites selling 9W LED bulbs under the name of Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All (UJALA) programme.
These websites are not associated with the UJALA programme of EESL which is a public energy services company, under the administration of Ministry of Power.
As per Ministry Two websites –
[1] www.philips-led-at-10rs.in and
[2] pbs.twimg.com/media/CoGI9txWIAAybuk.jpg
are misleading consumers by promising them of providing LED bulbs as low as Re 1. They are not only using copyright images of UJALA logo but also Prime Minister Narendra Modi picture to deceive the consumers.