OREANDA-NEWS. Reliance Infrastructure Limited (RInfra), India’s leading integrated power distribution company, today announced that through its YES (Young Energy Savers) program it will educate 1.5 lakh students from 200 schools on energy conservation by this year end.

By educating the students, RInfra will be able to spread awareness among their families, thereby sensitizing more than 7 lakh consumers in the Mumbai city.

In its fifth year, YES program aims to promote energy conservation and judicious usage of electricity among children and their families.

This will not only help to reduce environment pollution by reducing carbon footprint but also reduce their electricity bills by almost 7%.

Through this program, RInfra is also targeting to reduce 50 metric tones of carbon footprint by year end.

Speaking on the occasion, spokesperson for Reliance Infrastructure Ltd. said, “As a responsible Corporate Citizen, RInfra is mindful of the need to promote energy conservation for the betterment of our future generation. We are happy to see that YES is playing a pivotal role in inculcating energy conservation habits among children. It’s matter of pride for us that we have successfully entered in the 5th year of YES initiative, which reflects encouraging response from the schools and from among students."

“Rlnfra is the only utility to have entered the Guinness Book of World Records when it brought together the largest congregation of school children dressed as Trees last year,” the spokesperson added.

Initiated in 2009, YES was conceived with the objective of generating awareness for energy conservation through children who are an effective way to influence decision makers.

YES boasts of a Facebook following of close to 1.5 lakh and in 2012 it won the Social Cause Category-Silver trophy at the IBMA Awards.

Reliance Infrastructure Ltd (RInfra) is the largest infrastructure company developing projects, through various Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs), in several high growth areas in the Infrastructure sector i.e. Roads, Metro Rail, and Cement.

The Company is also the leading utility company having presence across the value chain of power businesses i.e. Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Trading of power.

The SPVs are inter alia developing a metro rail project in Mumbai; eleven road projects with total length of 1,000 kms; and developing two cement plants of capacity of five million tonnes per year each in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.

RInfra along with its wholly owned subsidiary generates over 940 MW of power through its five power stations; distributes power to over 60 lakh consumers in Mumbai and Delhi and is developing five transmission projects including the first Independent Private Transmission projects.

RInfra also provides Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) services for developing power and road projects.