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Cracker of a de-light
Ornamental lighting installed at Municipal Travellers' Bungalow traffic island in Guntur.
MELBOURNE MERUPULA merise dana... a hit Telugu number from Kamal Hassan-starer `Bharateeyudu' is how the ornamental public lighting of the Australian city described.
Taking a page out of the world renowned lighting the Guntur Municipal Corporation (GMC) has come up with the idea of beautifying at least one part of the city -- the island that virtually divides the old city from the new one.
Cash-strapped GMC for this kind of beautification has tied up with several corporate companies to realise their dream of greening and improving the visibility on the main thoroughfares by lighting up the main traffic islands, dividers. As part of the project Andhra Bank at Guntur has sponsored these lights measuring 20 feet from the ground at the Municipal Travellers' Bungalow traffic island.
Visible from most of the high-rise buildings in the city, the Electrical Digital Fireball system installed at a cost of Rs.1.35 lakhs looks like a rocket cracker that had burst just then in the sky. Equipped with a controller, the 70 tubes attached to a white vertical pole churns out hundreds of combination of colours in the tubes.
A delight even during daytime, this electrical cracker system has added beauty to the island with the facility to increase or decrease the speed of travel of beam of light in the tubes, and patterns with just touch of a button. The road-divider at the basement needs a facelift and Chukkapalli Ramesh of the TVS showroom has come forward to sponsor the work, the Mayor Chukka Yesuratnam, said during a trial run of the crackers.
By Ramesh Susarla
in Guntur
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