Due to poor maintenance and lethargy on the part of the Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MAUD) department, LED streetlights in many municipalities and municipal corporations have gone defunct.
Apart from the Greater Hyderabad
Municipal Corporation (GHMC), complaints about non-functioning streetlights are pouring in from several urban local bodies (ULBs), particularly after the agreement with Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) for installation, operation and maintenance expired in many of them.