The Coimbatore Corporation is likely to add 2,000 more street lights in added areas in the next few months.
According to Corporation Commissioner K. Vijayakarthikeyan, the civic body has completed a survey of street lights in the 40 wards that form the added areas to arrive at the number.
The civic body will erect poles to install the lights, which, in all probability, will have energy-efficient LED bulbs. It will also use the bulbs to replace the 17,000-odd tube lights of the 25,000 street lights in the area.
Sources said that the civic body had engaged a private agency to carry out street light survey in the added areas to improve lighting facilities.
The agency had to study the number of existing lights, type of bulbs used, the requirement, the luminosity required, the number of new poles and lights required among others.
They said that it did not stop with that, though. It engaged another agency, an energy auditor, to check if the agency study was correct.
Now with both the study and the audit complete, the civic body had floated tenders and would soon begin the work of replacing lights.
But there were a few glitches such as the Corporation finding it difficult to identify the correct service connection numbers for a few street light connections as the panel boards had been replaced.
The civic body engineers were on the job to find out the correct service connection numbers. Once that was complete, the civic body would also be able to arrive at the savings in power consumption it would get by replacing the tube lights.
Aside from tube lights, the Corporation had sodium vapour, metal alloy and compact fluorescent lights.
