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1,639,265 street bulbs have been replaced with LED Lights throughout the country under Street Lighting National Programme (SLNP). This was stated by Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy and Mines in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.

Ministry of Power has issued/entitled to purchase Energy Savings Certificates (ESCerts) to Designated Consumers (DCs) of PAT Cycle I on February 16, 2017, on verification of their performance with regard to energy savings, based on the recommendations of BEE. The first cycle of PAT has been completed in March 2015.

After posting a consistent rise in four years from 2012-13 to 2015-16, coal royalty collection in Odisha has witnessed a slide in this fiscal, with Coal India's biggest producing subsidiary Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL) struggling to meet its targeted coal production.

Union Minister for Coal Piyush Goyal, in a media interaction discussed how the coal segment has shown tremendous transformation.

The government said an amount of Rs.21,128.59 crore has been collected as Clean Environment Cess from across the country in the April-January period of the ongoing fiscal.

Out of 18,452 un-electrified villages, 11,931 villages have been electrified as on January 30, 2017 under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY). This was stated by Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha.