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Thousands of streetlights defunct in jammu and Kashmir capital Srinagar, SMC Mayor

| @indiablooms | May 11, 2019, at 05:19 pm

Srinagar, May 11 (UNI) Thousands of streetlight in the summer capital are defunct and Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) has expressed its inability to repair them in the absence of electric division.

The defunct streetlights are badly affecting the movement of people, particularly during the holy month of Ramadan when people go to mosques for morning and late evening prayers.

Mayor of SMC Junaid Azim Mattu said thousands of defunct streetlights in the city needs immediate repair. He said he has reiterated the demand for an electric division in the SMC to cope with repairing these defunct streetlights.

Taking to micro-blogging site on official account of SMC, Mr Mattu said, ''We have been repeatedly urging the Administration to give SMC an electric division to cope up with the repairing of thousands of defunct streetlights in the city. I have reiterated the demand again today. Failing this, we won’t be able to resolve this absolute mess!.''

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