The Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) will finish the installation of 65,000 LED street lights in all the wards by April. Informing this, the municipal commissioner Vinay Shankar Pandey stated that the corporation has already selected the wards where the installation will occur first by the lottery system. According to him, the installation of street lights will start from a batch of five wards as selected through the lottery system and initially, around 10,000 street lights will be issued to be installed and with the same procedure, the installation will be done in the other wards. Moreover, the officials informed that though most of the LED street lights will be installed in the new wards, the corporation will also install over 2000 street lights in some of the old wards. Commissioner said that the installation of street lights will be finished by April 30 across the city and all the wards will be illuminated during the night. The installation of 1000 timers and electric meters on the electric poles is also under process to ensure efficient working of street lights after installation. Pandey said that in order to ensure the proper operation of street lights in every ward after the installation, MCD signed an agreement with EESL Company for seven years according to which, the company will maintain LED street lights in the new wards after installation.
