JAIPUR: With barely a week to go before the Festival of Lights, the JMC is all set to decorate the city. With additional 1,000 manpower to clean the roads and funds to fix street lights, the civic body has also decided to award prizes to the best ward, roads, and decorations across city markets during these festive season.

However, at least 40% of city lights are not working. The JMC has decided to deck up all main roads with 10 tubelights and two hydrogen lights in each ward. R P Chaturvedi, commissioner garage and lights, said JMC is purchasing additional lights.

"Within a few days defunct lights would be replaced with new ones." he added. Special officers have been appointed to look after street lights. The best-decorated bazaar in each zones will be given away a prize and a citation for which the a committee of councillors would be constituted.

For each ward, the JMC has roped in 10 more sanitation staff. Each ward will be monitored by its councillor who will certify the amount of work done in their area. "We have also deployed additional machines for the purpose," claimed Anil Paliwal, headquarters commissioner, JMC. Required number of tractors, dumpers, loaders have been given to the contractors for additional work load during the festival.