Mysuru, July 5 -- In a major initiative to improve street lighting and public safety, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has identified 4,229 dark spots across the city and drawn up plans to illuminate them by installing new electric poles and LED streetlights.

The dark spots include roads, residential layouts, parks and traffic junctions that currently lack adequate street lighting, often leaving these areas in darkness after sunset. The MCC aims to transform Mysuru into a "darkness-free city" through the proposed drive.

The initiative comes after the successful replacement of conventional streetlights with 73,000 LED bulbs across the city. Building on this, the MCC has now identified another 5,000 locations for fresh streetlight instal...