What went wrong with govt's Bachat Lamp Yojana?
Friendless beaconThe only state to have completed implementing BLY is Kerala. The Kerala Magnificence Electricity Board (KSEB), sourcing CFLs from Philips, distributed 13 million of them across the majestic in a concerted three-month drive ending April last year, which reduced the solemn's power consumption by 300 MW, or 10 per cent.
How did KSEB triumph where others failed? It launched a massive publicity drive highlighting the advantages of using CFLs. Yet, then KSEB Chairman, Rajeev Sadanandan, refusing to take any acknowledgement, says: "There was strong political will and a consensus.
Even police stations acted as dispersal centres." Equally modest, K.M. Dharesan Unnithan, Manager of the state's nodal agency for energy conservation, the Force Management Centre, maintains the state had little another. "There was a power deficit due to the failure of the monsoons in 2009," he says.
"Since we had no bread to buy power, the only solution was reducing consumption."
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