NAADU – NEDU : ELECTRIFICATION OF TUBE AND FAN GUIDELINES RELEASED

Government vide the GO read in the ref cited have accorded
administrative sanction for improving the School Infrastructure facilities in
all the schools of Phase I under Mana Badi Nadu Nedu program.


 2. The primary objective of this work is to provide fans and tube
lights in all the class rooms in the school. Unless we do proper robust
electrification, we cannot fulfil the primary objective. The life of the
electrification work and fans should be 75 years. To suit to these
requirements, we need to follow appropriate standards and specifications
given under. The following guidelines shall be followed in taking up the
work ‘Electrification with fans and tube lights’.


i. If there is no electricity for the school, the power company should be
approached. And necessary costs shall be met from the program.
However pending power charges for the school shall not be booked
from this program. The same shall be met from school grant being
given separately.
ii. Concealed Conduit Wiring: 
a. Concealed Conduit Wiring is the most common way of doing
wiring in the present days. The same shall be followed.
b. Before laying the PVC pipes in the wall,
chasing/chiselling/grooving shall be done in the wall with wall
cutters. Avoid manual grooving to avoid damage to the walls.
c. Conduits (Pipes) shall be fixed inside the walls with approved
clips to ensure proper routing and wiring.
d. The width of the groove shall be limited as per the number of
pipes/conduits.
e. After fixing the pipes, boxes and accessories the groove
surface shall be filled with cement mortar and chick mesh
wrapped around the pipes.
f. In case of buildings where new RCC slabs/beams are laid, the
pipes and boxes shall be provided in the slab portion/beam
portion.