No streetlights in 30% of Delhi's dark spots as civic bodies pass the buck

The north corporation says these areas don't fall under its jurisdiction while the PWD argues that if that was the case then the corporation shouldn't have given an NOC in the first place

During daylight hours in Delhi, there's a clamour for women safety, by nightfall, around 2,000 spots in the national capital go under the cover of darkness. Last year, poles for streetlights were erected in these spots but are yet to have bulbs fixed on to them, rendering them useless. That is because various civic agencies haven't been able to sort out jurisdiction issues, according to a report in The Times of India.

In 2016, Safety Pin, an NGO, identified 7,428 dangerous dark spots across Delhi. Since the municipal corporations didn't have the wherewithal to handle these, the Delhi government began