The Amdavad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has received a total of 48,209 complaints of street lights being out of service from seven zones.
A maximum number of 10,594 complaints has been received from the southern zone. On average, citizens register more than 216 complaints of street lights being out of service online with the AMC every day.
There are more than 2.7 lakh street light poles in Ahmedabad. This includes 246 poles of high mast lights and more than 6,000 LED street light poles in the BRTS corridors.
AMC’s contract for the operation and maintenance of the streetlights with Citelum India Pvt Ltd has expired after five years of its tenure. However, no new tender has been floated.
As per AMC’s policy, the process of new tender is initiated before the expiry of any tender. So that whoever gets the new tender can start the work on time.
In the last three years, a total of more than 2.36 lakh complaints were made to the AMC regarding the streetlights.