4 gurdwaras set to go green

New Delhi: Four famous Sikh shrines in Delhi, including Rakab Ganj and Bangla Sahib Gurdwaras, will go green by employing solar energy to meet their daily power needs from April. These four gurdwaras — Bangla Sahib, Gurdwara Rakab Ganj, Nanak Piao and Majnu Tk Tila — will be provided with rooftop solar panels having a total capacity of 1 MW, said Manjit Singh GK, the president of Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee ( DSGMC). “The commissioning of solar plants will be completed by March- end,” he said, adding a ceremony will be held next week to start work on the project. A company enlisted with the Solar Energy Corporation of India has been selected through competitive bidding, for executing the project, Singh said, adding a power purchase agreement has also been signed and the DSGMC is likely to save around 60 lakh per year as power bill. — PTI The National Green Tribunal ( NGT) has allowed registration of diesel ambulances of the AIIMS which conform to BS- IV emission norms. The NGT allowed it after AIIMS assured it that it does not possess vehicles which were more than 10 years old, following which the NGT directed the applicant to file an affidavit before the RTO in this connection. “We allow these applications directing the transport commissioner, transport department, government of NCT Delhi to register the vehicles referred to in the applications on the condition that the new vehicles that are sought to be registered now should be BS- IV compliant,” the NGT said.