When the 16th President is sworn in at Rashtrapati Bhavan in July-end, he can feel proud that his residence has under a unique business partnership, succeeded in bringing down energy costs by almost 25 per cent.

The sprawling President Estate’s baseline energy consumption used to be over `70 lakh annually. The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) offered to help bring the energy costs of Rashtrapati Bhavan down with no additional cost to the exchequer.