{"id":15222,"date":"2013-12-09T21:48:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T16:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=15222"},"modified":"2013-12-09T21:56:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T16:26:49","slug":"street-lights-maintenance-corporation-to-sign-pact-with-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/street-lights-maintenance-corporation-to-sign-pact-with-contractors\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Lights Maintenance: Corporation to sign pact with contractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>#EnteThiruvananthapuram:<\/strong> Soon, there will be no more dark nights in Trivandrum. City Corporation has decided to sign pact with 15 separate contractors for the maintenance of street lights that fall within its jurisdiction. The Corporation hopes to finalise the agreement by next week.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the contractors are regular contractors of the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB). These contractors will be given the same amount of maintenance fee that the civic body give to KSEB. According to KSEB, the maintenance fee for fluorescent lamp is Rs.266 and for sodium vapour lamp is Rs.1,065.<\/p>\n<p>Separate tenders have been called for each of 30 electrical sections, since awarding the entire work to a single contractor would delay the maintenance work. Each electrical section has got more than 2,500 streetlights.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Trivandrum Corporation failed to get response from contractors to its tender called on November 8. This made the civic body to down the minimum requirement for contractors from \u2018licensed\u2019 to \u2018contractors having experience certificate from KSEB. As of now, only 15 contractors have come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, it was planned to deposit an advance amount of Rs.25 lakh with the KSEB to carry out the maintenance work. However, KSEB rejected this plan and sought details from the Corporation about the street lights installed in the 100 wards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#EnteThiruvananthapuram: Soon, there will be no more dark nights in Trivandrum. City Corporation has decided to sign pact with 15 separate contractors for the maintenance of street lights that fall within its jurisdiction. The Corporation hopes to finalise the agreement by next week. Most of the contractors are regular contractors of the Kerala State Electricity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":15071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-15222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}