ByLights on 16 lamps on Marine Drive changed to yellow as part of the pilot project to restore the promenade’s golden glow.It’s a ‘small’ victory for the Shiv Sena, which has bitterly opposed its alliance partner BJP’s move to install white LED lights at Marine Drive. Around 1 am on Saturday, the lights on 16 of the 644 lamps on Marine Drive were changed from white to yellow by the Energy Efficiency Service Limited (EESL), the Union Ministry’s power subsidiary.The BMC chief, Ajoy Mehta, had asked EESL to “change the lights at the earliest” after the company submitted before the high court that the Queen’s Necklace’s golden glow could be restored with yellow LEDs and there was no need to go back to the sodium vapour lamps.Now, the EESL will ask the Heritage Committee to inspect the new lights, and once approved by the committee, it will change the lights to yellow within two weeks.An EESL official, Deepak Kokate, said, “We completed the pilot project of installing 16 yellow LED lamps on four poles on Friday night. These poles are in front of the Wankhede Stadium.”The Shiv Sena, however, is far from happy with the pilot project. Professor Avakash Jadhav, the nominated Sena corporator who had first complained to the Mumbai Heritage Conservation Committee about the white lights, said, “How can the effect of the yellow LED lights be measure with just 16 lamps? The EESL should have used at least 20 sodium vapour lamps and 20 LED lights. The remaining lamps have white LED lights, so the current comparison is unfair.”