1.  Street Lighting

                        There are a total of 10,720 streetlight poles with fixtures in Nanded, of which about 30 percent are high powered fixtures comprising sodium and mercury vapor lamps, while the rest 70 per cent are tube light fixtures.  Considering the total NWCMC road length of 400 km in the city, the average spacing of functional street lights works out about 37 meters, which is low, compared to a general norm of 25 meters.

Table 16: Summary of Street lighting in Nanded

                        NWCMC has outsourced the operation and maintenance of street lighting in the city.  It has appointed a private contractor for the purpose on a fixed fee per fixture basis, including repairs and replacement of fixtures, switching on & off operations and complaint receipt and redressal within 24 hours.  NWCMC officials feel that the service efficiency has gone up from around 80 per cent to 100 per cent upon outsourcing the street plighting operations.

1.1.            Key Issues & Strategy Options for Street lighting

1.1.1.      Issues & Observations

                        Street Lighting is inadequate and poor in most of the roads.  The average streetlight spacing is about 37 meters, as against the norm of 25 meters.  Majority of the fixtures are tube lights, which are inadequate in today’s traffic scenario.

1.1.2.      Strategy Options

                        NWCMC should consider replacement in a phased manner of the existing power-intensive tube light fixtures with modern power-saving high power fixtures.