India, Dec. 2 -- The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram will install 1,500 new streetlights and repair non-functional ones across public parks in the city after growing complaints that several neighbourhood parks remain dark after sunset, raising safety concerns for residents, especially women and children. Officials said the work has begun in some wards and will take three to four months to complete.

Sachin Yadav, executive engineer at MCG, said there are over 100,000 streetlights across the city. "We stay in regular contact with councillors from all 36 wards, who relay complaints about non-functional streetlights to us," he said. He added that about 1,500 new streetlights will be installed in parks, and faulty ones repaired. "At some wa...