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GUWAHATI, 16 Jun:<\/strong> The Assam secretariat on Sunday became the country’s first green state government headquarters with the inauguration of a 2.5 MW solar power project on its campus, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.<\/p>\n Installed at a cost of Rs 12.5 crores, the grid-connected rooftop solar power plant will save Rs 30 lakhs in electricity bills every month, he said while addressing the official programme here.<\/p>\n “Today we took a giant leap forward in our goal to become a net-zero government, as I inaugurated a 2.5 MW solar project in Janata Bhawan, making #AssamGreenSecretariat, India’s first Green Secretariat,” Sarma said in a post on X after the function.<\/p>\n From now onwards, the secretariat complex will run entirely on solar power, resulting in savings of Rs 30 lakhs every month on electricity bills, he added.<\/p>\n The CM said also that the government has decided that all official complexes will be fitted with solar panels, beginning with the medical colleges and universities across the state.<\/p>\n The power installations at all government offices will have automatic disconnection<\/p>\n facilities at 8-9 pm, except home, finance and CM secretariat, he added.<\/p>\n “So far, the electricity bills of all ministers, senior officials and other staff staying at official quarters were being paid by the government. This 75-year-old practice will stop in July. We will pay our bills on our own,” Sarma said.<\/p>\n After implementing all these steps, which will result in saving of cost and power both, the state-run Assam Power Distribution Company Ltd will explore the possibility of reducing power tariff by Re 1 from 1 April, 2025 to provide relief to consumers, he added.(PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" GUWAHATI, 16 Jun: The Assam secretariat on Sunday became the country’s first green state government headquarters with the inauguration of a 2.5 MW solar power project on its campus, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. Installed at a cost of Rs 12.5 crores, the grid-connected rooftop solar power plant will save Rs 30 lakhs in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-242396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}