Bachat Lamp Yojana

Bachat Lamp Yojana (BLY), launched in 2009, promotes energy efficient and high quality CFLs as a replacement for incandescent bulbs in households.

• The programme focuses on the cost barrier to reduce the price of CFLs to that of incandescent bulbs for consumers. It also targets replacement of about 400 million incandescent bulbs in use, leading to a possible reduction of 4000 MW of electricity demand, and a reduction of about 24 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions every year.

The Bachat Lamp Yojana is designed as a public-private partnership between the Government of India, private sector CFL suppliers and State level Electricity Distribution Companies (DISCOMs).

Under the initiative of Market Transformation for Energy Efficiency of the National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency (NMEEE), BEE has developed the umbrella framework BLY-Programme of Activities (PoA) that has been registered under UNFCCC- Executive Board in 2010. The PoA defines the key CDM requirements, including the project baseline, methodology, monitoring protocols through which carbon dioxide emission reductions would be assessed. This approach reduces time and transaction costs for registering the projects since the key CDM requirements need not be addressed by area-specific projects. In India, Kerala has implemented the scheme and distributed CFLs in the entire state. Karnataka has also launched the scheme and CFL distribution has started. BLY is at different stages of implementation in many other states like Punjab, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Goa, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Delhi.