Rs80m allocated for streetlights repairs

The Capital Development Authority (CDA) will spend over Rs80 million on the rehabilitation and maintenance of street lights to keep the city illuminated at night.

A CDA spokesman said on Wednesday that the Street Light Department will install new street lights, repair faulty street lights and transformers on various major highways, intersections, link roads, markets, and streets across Islamabad. Tenders will be floated soon in national newspapers before the commencement of work, he added.

He said the department under the guidance of CDA Chairman Aamer Ali Ahmed was committed to providing all required resources to the street lights division in the best interest of the capital city and its residents. The uninterrupted functioning of street lights was imperative to provide the citizenry with comfortable commuting, the spokesman added.

A budget of over Rs20 million was set aside for the installation of new street lights on various main highways and connecting roads of Grand Trunk Road to Hajj Complex and Sector I-14/2-3.

Additionally, a budget of over Rs19 million was earmarked for the installation of new and modern street lights on the main highways, link roads and markets of sector I-11/2 and maintenance of faulty street lights. Rs16 million is allocated for sector I-16 to ensure proper lighting system on main highways, service roads and markets. Rs11 million will be utilized for lighting arrangement for sector I-10, Faqir Appi Road to Victory Pipe Industrial Area. For Sector I-14-1, I-14/3 and I-14/4, CDA set aside Rs11 million, and in sector H-11 from NUST University Gate No 1 to Srinagar Highway Rs7 million was set.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 28^th, 2022.