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GHMC to take up new street lighting projects

Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD: The Government while reversing an earlier decision has ordered GHMC to take up the Street Lighting Energy Efficient and Automation Project being offered by M2M SSIL-GRC consortium.

To begin with 1,000 streetlights in each of the five zones are to be taken up as a pilot project.

The consortium was among the 16 firms which responded to an Expression of Interest (EOI) and it was shortlisted by a technical committee of JNTU, ECIL and CPDCL after equipment demonstration.

Earlier, the consortium had appealed to the government to reconsider the project for “environmental balance”, reduction of carbon emission, saving energy consumption and to “generate employment” to young engineers.

Accepting the argument and after verifying the cost of street light maintenance and power consumption in the capital as well as the rising power demand, the government has asked GHMC to take it up a pilot project.

The consortium has been asked to provide bank guarantee equivalent to three months of electricity maintenance charges of the municipal corporation.

Official sources said that the consortium had sought a lump sum investment running into crores of rupees from the civic body when the proposal was first mooted. In the revised format, the consortium has offered to bear capital costs besides sharing revenue of 10 per cent with GHMC.

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