No streetlights in 30% of Delhi's dark spots as civic bodies pass the buck

During daylight hours in Delhi, there's a clamour for women safety, by nightfall, around 2,000 spots in the national capital go under the cover of darkness. Last year, poles for streetlights were erected in these spots but are yet to have bulbs fixed on to them, rendering them useless. That is because various civic agencies haven't been able to sort out jurisdiction issues, according to a report in The Times of India.

In 2016, Safety Pin, an NGO, identified 7,428 dangerous dark spots across Delhi. Since the municipal corporations didn't have the wherewithal to handle these, the Delhi government began an initiative in July that year to install LED streetlights on their behalf. Both the north and east corporations issued no-objection certificates for the work, the report said.

"We were to just install the lights and hand them over to the corporations. The work was to take three to four months," the report quoted a PWD official as saying.