LUCKNOW, April 6 -- As legislators from across the state have prioritised infrastructure and public amenities with a strong preference for lighting and road solutions in their constituencies, streetlights have emerged as the most demanded project under the Vidhayak Nidhi in Uttar Pradesh for the 2024-25 fiscal.

According to the official data available on the rural development department's official website, streetlighting projects topped the list with a total of over 14,000 installations, including 9.79K high-mast lights, 3.15K solar lights and 1.48K other streetlights.

During the year, MLAs recommended a total 32,224 works/projects of different nature and of them 19,645 projects were sanctioned. The streetlights, thus, accounted for a t...