TAMBARAM: Alandur Municipality will be taking up an energy audit as part of its initiatives to cut down the expenses incurred on maintaining streetlights and other facilities.
The municipality’s effort is significant, considering that most the urban local bodies’ administrators and elected representatives hardly talk of cutting down expenses incurred on maintenance of utilities, for which a large chunk of tax payers’ money is used.
The local body recently adopted a resolution urging one of the State government’s lending agencies to prepare a Detailed Project Report on how the expenses incurred on maintenance of civic amenities could be brought down. It aims at plugging some recurring leakage in the internal distribution of water supply, municipal authorities said.
There are 4,139 streetlights in Alandur, of which 2,750 are ordinary tubelights, 763 are 250-watt sodium vapour lamps, and 60 are 70-watt metal halide lamps.
The municipality also pays electricity charges for operating the Main Pumping Station.
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