Baramati village to switch on energy saving lamps

  • 12/05/2008

  • Indian Express (Mumbai)

Kathewadi village in Baramati taluka, hometown of Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar in Pune district, will soon become the only village in Pune to switch over to compact flourescent lamps (CFL). In two months time, the entire village will do away with the sodium vapour lamps and tubelights and switch over to the energy conserving CFL. In an effort to address global warming, this village is among the 12 selected by the Relief and Rehabilitation (R & R) Department of the State Government to initiate the pilot project