It's been over a year, but citizens' complaints and pleas to light up the area near Bhakti Park monorail station in Wadala are far from being heard. In March last year, mid-day had reported how Dr Surekha Kamath, 70, former anaesthesia professor at Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, had requested the BMC to install streetlights on the poorly-lit stretch between Adarsh Nagar bus stop and Bhakti Park monorail station. The senior citizen has also approached Shiv Sena MP Rahul Shewale for help. However, despite following it up for over 18 months, civic officials only verbally informed her that a proposal to install streetlights would be put up soon, and that it would take another nine months for things to be set in motion.

The poorly-lit stretch between Adarsh Nagar bus stop and Bhakti Park monorail station. Pic/Suresh Karkera