PCAIT on green radar

With the objective to protect the interest of unorganized computer assemblers
in the process of implementing energy standards driven by Bureau of Energy
Efficiency (BEE) and creating awareness about the same, PCAIT has circulated a
questionnaire to all its members to give their inputs for the BEE standard
establishment. “As far as energy efficiency is concerned, we are putting a
system where the unorganized PC assemblers are not ignored and they are also
taken in consideration by the driving bodies in the process of star labeling.
This is an exercise that we are doing to keep the channel partners active and
informed about the implementation of energy standards in PCs,” said Saket Kapur,
General Secretary, PCAIT.

According to Energy Conservation Act 2001, all the electrical appliances have
to follow energy efficiency standards and they are issued labels of stars that
indicates the rate of energy they consume. BEE had held a meeting with the PC
manufacturers and PCAIT recently to explain to them about the ways to run the
standard programs and the necessity of implementing the standards while
manufacturing the products.