BBMP ‘spends’ Rs 4.5 crore on streetlights in just one ward
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has spent Rs 4.5 crore to install LED streetlights in parks and main roads in just a single ward — Yelahanka New Town.
A reality check by the Bengaluru NavaNirmana Party (BNP), a political outfit, has, however, found that many streets in the ward are either dark or continue to have old sodium vapour lamps.
Over the last few months, the BNP has been running #LekkaBeku, a campaign aimed at creating awareness among the citizens of Bengaluru about the hundreds of crores of taxpayers’ money spent by the BBMP in each ward without any transparency, citizen participation or accountability.
