PANJIM: Nearly 3500 electricity poles in the capital city will be replaced with new Smart street lighting poles mounted with energy efficient LED bulbs under the Smart City Mission.
After installing CCTV cameras in the city, The Imagine Panjim Smart City Development Limited (IPSCDL) has taken a decision to replace all the electricity poles in the limits of the Corporation of City of Panjim (CCP) except poles fitted along the Dayanand Bandodkar Road, Panjim.
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The IPSCDL official said that the Electricity Department, which is the executing agency had already prepared the estimates of Rs 44 crore and had also given its technical approval. The proposal is now awaiting the green signal from the IPSCDL Board and once approved tenders will be floated to start the work.
All the new poles will have Smart components/features such as sensors and will be mounted with energy efficient LED bulbs. These Smart street lighting poles will be automatically operated and the LED bulbs will be programmed with day and night timings so that the street lights will automatically go on and off. The poles will be of different sizes ie four, six and eight metres long.
The official further said that only fixtures mounted on the poles along the D B Road will be replaced with new fixtures. Also defaded casting poles will be replaced. Around 350 casting poles were installed along the D B Road about 15 years ago and about 150 of them, which have been defaded will now be replaced.
