LUCKNOW: After struggling for about two years to find a suitable company to light up Lucknow streets with LED lights , LMC has finally zeroed in on a Noida-based PSU to change all the sodium and tubelights to LED units. LMC aims to light up all streets of the city with LED bulbs in the next six months. The move is targeted to give better illumination and save electricity cost by up to 20%.

The work on LED installation had started before the PM’s visit on Yoga Day. All routes from Ring Road to Polytechnic crossing, Lohia Path to Jail Road and VIP Road to Aurangabad crossing were lit up with LED lights a day before the event. Initially, there were plans to light up 41,000 units on a pilot basis in zones I and V. Later, when LMC found an experienced company ready to take up the job with all expenses on its own, it decided to light up all streetlight points with LED this year.

An LMC official told TOI, “There are 1,64,000 streetlight points in the city which would be lit up in phases till December 2017. You will not see any sodium light or tubelight on streets next year. The company has agreed to bear all the cost and would not give us any financial obligation.”

