“I am happy to see that the struggle which began a year ago is finally bearing fruits. While around 400 street lights have been changed, 200 will be fixed soon. The high court later directed the civic body to replace white LED lights with yellow ones by first evaluating its illumination on a small stretch of Marine Drive. The charm of the Queen’s Necklace was lost with the white LEDs, but it is expected to be back by this experiment,” he said.The Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), Wholesale xmas lights Factory which is installing the yellow LEDs in place of white, on the iconic road said that the work would be completed by the end of January. Accordingly, lux (International System of Units for illuminance) measurement of yellow LEDs was checked on four street poles near Wankhede Stadium. An EESL official said, “Since it is a VIP stretch, we have been doing the work of changing the lights only at night time.
However, the decision was mired in controversy with demands that yellow lights should be brought back as their absence had robbed the Queen’s Necklace of its charm. The civic body then decided that white LEDs could be replaced by yellow LED street lights on the entire Marine Drive road from Nariman Point to Walkeshwar.Marine Drive resident Mahendra Hemdev said that it’s good that the golden glow of Marine Drive is back with the LED lights, which are cost effective and energy efficient.”In January last year, the BMC had replaced sodium vapour lamps with white LED lights on the Marine Drive stretch, claiming that LED lights would be energy efficient and cost-effective.More than half of the Marine Drive stretch has got its golden glow back as around 400 white streetlights have been replaced with yellow ones.Shiv Sena-nominated corporator Avkash Jadhav, who has been pursuing the matter with the BMC, visited the spot on midnight of January 26 and expressed happiness over the issue.. There are some 200 more lights on the entire Marine Drive stretch, which still have to be converted into yellow lights.
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