LED lights in Hyderabad Will Be Completed Very Soon:GHMC

Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation started the exercise to compete the city roads with LED light in July 2017.The Officials on Friday said it  would be completed soon and  the process of going in for LED lights was saving around 162.15 million units of power and Rs 115.13 crore towards electricity bills. Having replaced almost 4 lakh of 4.03 lakh conventional streetlights with LED lights in the city so far, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is all set to emerge as the biggest civic body in the country to have adopted LED lights on such massive scale.“With this, some 1,29,719 tonnes of carbon dioxide is also reduced every year,” a statement said.

The replacement of conventional streetlights has also been taken up in parks, sports complexes and graveyards and almost all the works were on the last lap. “They will be completed very soon,” an official quipped.Taken up at the directions of MA&UD Minister KT Rama Rao, the project, apart from saving power and electricity bills, has also been giving a bright look for the streets at night.

The project was taken up in coordination with Energy Efficiency Services Limited, which is affiliated to the Union government, and the GHMC is not releasing any separate fund for it and the payments are to be made from the savings made in power bills every year. The new LED lights come in different capacities of 18, 35, 17, 110, 190 watts.Also, the GHMC successfully replacing 4 lakh lights in just nine months is also termed a major achievement as the civic bodies of New Delhi and Visakhapatnam could replace 2 lakh and 1 lakh conventional streetlights, respectively, in a year, the release said.