LED streetlights project in Bengaluru fails to take off
The Hindu
It involved replacing 4.85 lakh sodium vapour lamps with LED
The city’s wait for LED (light emitting diode) street lights seems to be getting only longer. After over three years of wait, the project to replace 4.85 lakh sodium vapour lamps with LED lights failed to take off, and the contract with the consortium led by Shapoorji Pallonji now stands cancelled.
LEDs are typically long-lasting and are energy efficient.
The failure of the pan-city contract to a single vendor under the Build, Own, Operate and Transfer (BOOT) model, where the consortium was expected to invest around ₹840 crore and recover costs over the next ten years, has put a question mark over the feasibility of the model during a slump in the economy.
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