Coimbatore: City Corporation is looking for Rs 20 lakh from the NIRBHaya fund from the Ministry of Women and the development of children to improve lighting on 11 clusters found not safe for women and children.
The civil body has identified dark spots scattered in Thudiangur-Keeranatham-Chinnavedampatti, Sankara College Road -ThudiLiLurur Road, JJ Nagar, Marudham Nagar, Vidya Colony, Jayalakshmi Nagar, Haaj Garden and Sindhu Nagar in the North Zone, 76 and 77 wards at South Zone, Ramohan Nagar, Maharaja Nagar, Kalapatti Main, East Zone, Kannappa Nagar, Lenin Nagar, Kamarajapuram, Jalan Chinnammal, VOC Nagar, Ganesh Nagar, Subbathal layout, Jalan Maruthakutti and Maheshwari Nagar at the Central Zone.
Resolution Searching for RS 20 Lakh from NIRBHAYA FUND approved by the Corporate Council held in July.
The corporation estimates that it will cost Rs 20.15 lakh to increase lighting on dark spots and plan to allocate RS 15,000 left to drive.
A total of 142 street lights, starting from 20 to 120W LED lights, will be installed.
Corporations have received communication from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and Administrative Commissioner of the Government of Tamil Nadu in April to identify these places need lights so that women and children can feel safe, an official said.
“We will start work immediately after the identified place is approved by the Ministry,” he told Ti.Nirbhaya Fund, founded in 2013 in the memory of a brutal woman on a bus engaged in Delhi, intended for the scheme.
to fight violence against women.