Urjasvi campaign now continuing in full swing to provide the villagers with LED bulbs by Society of Pollution and Environment Conservation Scientists (SPECS), the Secy of the organisation, Brij Mohan Sharma said in a media meet here on Saturday that the campaign has saturated 28 villages and replaced 100-watt bulbs by 7 Watt LED bulbs which would result in saving 10368432 units electricity per year. These LED can also be repaired easily if they get dysfunctional by voltage fluctuation, he said. “Another important feature of the campaign is that all the LED bulbs being provided to the villagers are being made by the villagers themselves and also by the inmates of the jails. This is providing jobs to the unemployed as they are being trained on how to manufacture such bulbs,” he said, adding that the motto of the campaign is skill transfer aside from saving environment, energy and money and also minimising the E-Waste. “This is also proving instrumental in empowering the villagers through creation and expansion of employment opportunities,” he said. Queried over the future programmes of the organisation, Sharma said that around 100 volunteers of the organisation who hail from different parts of U’khand are now working hard in imparting training to the people on how small units can be set up which can transform the economic face of the villages through generation of more and more employment. “We are now planning to further increase the number of the volunteers for the step,” he said. Dwelling on the possibility of checking migration of the villagers from the mountainous areas through the initiative undertaken by his organisation, Sharma said that as per a survey, U’khand needs around one crore such bulbs to light every household. “The State Govt is working at full throttle on this project. We are determined to use the chance not just to provide such milieu –friendly and energy-saving bulbs but also to use it as a tool to give ample employment opportunities to the people living in the remote mountain areas of the State,” he said. He said that the present part-time character of the work would soon change into a full-time one. “The people can earn enough of money to eke out their living while working from home. We would reach out to the State to help us to change this small-scale start-up into a large-scale industry.