The civic body’s decision to beautify the city through illumination – a cosmetic move rather than a necessary step – had been costing it high. Belagavi City Corporation has miserably failed to maintain decorative lamps in major roads..
In the roads like College road, Khanapur roads, newly installed decorative lamps have stopped functioning, in some places the illumination level of the these lamps has gone down within 6 months of installation. This is Just another case like Khanapur road where beautiful decorative lamps were installed few years back in which 70-80% of these are not in working condition now and they are so dirty that they have become an eyesore.
On the other side, Brand new footpath lamps were put up two years ago under Smart City project along the footpaths on Shree Nagar, ShivaBasava Nagar, Anjaneya Nagar, Nehru nagar Roads lying unused.
