Congress councillor protests poor upkeep of LED lights

Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, September 16

Causing huge embarrassment to the Congress-ruled Municipal Corporation in the city, party councillor from Ward Number 74, Pankaj Sharma, today staged a dharna, along with residents, against poor maintenance of LED lights installed in the city under the Smart City mission.

He said more than 300 newly installed LED lights were non-functional for the past many days.

Repeated complaints lodged with officials of the private company entrusted with the task of installation of LED lights had gone unheeded, he added.

“Even MC officials of the streetlight branch are unresponsive and I have to face the wrath of residents for non-functional LED lights,” he said.

A couple of days ago, Mamta Ashu, Congress councillor from Ward Number 67 and wife of Cabinet Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu, had also raised the issue of slow pace of installation of LED lights by the private company with the Municipal Commissioner.

Mayor Balkar Singh Sandhu said he had also received similar complaints from other councillors and residents of the affected areas.

He said the CEO of Ludhiana Smart City Limited, Sanyam Aggarwal, had gone abroad and on his return, the matter of speed of the work and proper maintenance of LED lights would be taken up with him.