Municipality Failure: Street lights have been defunct in Kupwara Town for many years
KUPWARA, Feb 23: Though the authorities claim to have restored and installed many streetlights in the Kupwara Town from years. The residents and shopkeepers of several areas said that the maximum of the street lights are lying defunct in their respective areas from last one year.
As the sun sets, the entire Kupwara Township in North Kashmir plunges into darkness because of local Municipal Council failure to repair the defunct street lights thereby further increasing the woes of locals.
Sources said that “VIP area” around Deputy Commissioner (DC) office and SSP office are well lit but other areas like Bus Stand, Bypass Road, Hospital Road, Jamia Road and Hyhama Road and others are dark after dusk forcing the shopkeepers to shut their shops after 6 pm. https://www.kupwaratimes.org/
Residents of Kupwara town complained that the streetlights installed in the area by the Power Department and Municipal Council Kupwara (MCK) were not functioning.
They said that some of the lights have gone out of order and the concerned MCK and PWD officials have failed to replace them.
“A streetlight or roadside lights in our Town has not worked for the past many years, yet nobody from the MCK nor PWD has visited the area to replace it. In absence of streetlights we are not able to go to Masjid in evening and morning,” locals told Kupwara Times.
“The Town residents appealed to the KMC and PWD to depute a team for replacing the lights in the market and also in our streets.”
