Mysuru, Oct. 23 -- * 60,000 bulbs to be replaced by energy-efficient bulbs

* 7-year project handed over to New Delhi-based firm

* MCC will not spend even a rupee under agreement

* LED project, however, will not include dark Ring Road

The 2015-16 proposal of the State Government to replace conventional streetlights with energy-efficient Light Emitting Diode (LED) lights in Mysuru has finally taken off with the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) handing over the seven-year Public Private Partnership (PPP) model project to New-Delhi based e-Smart firm.

The agreement with e-Smart and the MCC has been signed and work of replacing 60,000 bulbs with LED has already begun from Jayachamaraja Wadiyar Circle (Hardinge Circle), Chamaraja Circle, K.R....