{"id":3295,"date":"2017-03-07T16:22:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T16:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=3295"},"modified":"2017-03-07T16:22:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T16:22:07","slug":"samsung-india-announces-solar-lanterns-10000-girl-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/03\/07\/samsung-india-announces-solar-lanterns-10000-girl-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung India announces solar lanterns to 10,000 girl students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With an aim to support gender diversity and the girl child, Samsung India on Tuesday announced the distribution of 10,000 solar lanterns to girl students of government schools.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The initiative, which is slated to begin at the end of March, will benefit girl students in government schools of Noida and Gurugram in Delhi-NCR and Sriperumbudur near Chennai, the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEducation of the girl child is a key priority and through this initiative we want to reach out and light up the education of 10,000 girl students. This initiative is a small step towards helping these young girls grow up to become individual role-models,\u201d Deepak Bhardwaj, Vice President, Samsung India, said.<\/p>\n<p>Each girl child will be given a solar LED lantern that will enable them to spend more time on their studies, even during power outages.<\/p>\n<p>The lanterns, approved by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, are equipped with a solar panel and will come with a three-year product warranty, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IANS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Picture source: Alamy Image<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Picture used for illustrative purposes alone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With an aim to support gender diversity and the girl child, Samsung India on Tuesday announced the distribution of 10,000 solar lanterns to girl students of government schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3297,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions\/3297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}