Karachi Metropolitan Corporation, Chinese Company To Upgrade City Streetlights

Karachi Metropolitan Corporation has started work on converting city streetlights into modern LED energy saver solar light system on all 108 KMC roads with the cooperation of a renowned Chinese company, for better performance and low cost.

KARACHI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 14th Dec, 2018 ) :Karachi Metropolitan Corporation has started work on converting city streetlights into modern LED energy saver solar light system on all 108 KMC roads with the cooperation of a renowned Chinese company, for better performance and low cost.

In this connection a Memorandum of Strategic Cooperation (MSC) was signed on Friday by Mayor Karachi Wasim Akhtar and representative of CCCC Xi`an Road Construction Machinery Company (XRMC) Pvt Ltd, said a statement.

Senior director coordination Masood Alam, senior director culture and sports Rehan Khan with officers of Mechanical and Engineering department were also present on the occasion.

With this streetlights reform project, XRMC may also assist KMC to draw up "municipal road lighting standard and municipal streetlights standard project.

" Through the cooperation of the streetlights energy-saving project, XRMC may conduct detailed survey, design the proposal of KMC's lighting in Karachi, then effectively promote the streetlights energy-saving reform project to Lahore and other places to save more electricity energy.

Both KMC and XRMC are committed to strengthen the cooperation in the field of the service capacity of infrastructure in the field of energy-saving LED lights.

XRMC has rich development and management experience in municipal government streetlights and smart-city, as well as enjoys the comparative advantage of production capacity in China andXRMC is promoting several National level municipal streetlights reform projects in many countries like Norway, Cambodia and Indonesia.