The BMC has received Rs 1.12 crore for setting up additional high mast lights and increasing the coverage of street lights across the City.

The high mast lights are mostly used at traffic junctions or important locations to mark the place. Under the proposal, BMC has planned to put up 11 high mast lights. BMC officials have made an inspection to identify the locations where there is a need for high mast light.

“We have submitted the draft proposal for light system for approval,” said a BMC official. BMC’s standing committee will give the final approval to the proposal. The tender will be issued after the project is approved.

The Government had issued a tender a few months back for high mast light in all the urban local bodies (ULB) in the State. The purpose of the tender was to assist the smaller ULBs, who may not have resources, in finding competent contractors for the project. But the central tender was cancelled by the Housing and Urban Development (H & UD) Department recently. Now all the ULBs will have to undertake the  process of tender on their own and the funds allocated to each ULD will be provided to them individually by the State Government.