Mumbai: Marine Drive gets its 'yellow glow' back; white LED lights replaced

The iconic Marine Drive in Mumbai, which completed 100 years in December, has finally got its 'yellow glow' back after the Sena and BJP sparred over the LED lights in the area for over a year now.

On Tuesday, 250 white LED lights were replaced with yellow lights, while 400 more are yet to be installed. 

"This is a victory for people who wanted queen's necklace back in Marine Drive," Shiv Sena corporator Avkash Jadhav told ANI. 

The old sodium vapour lamps were replaced by white LED lights in January last year. However, the move had run into trouble after Aaditya Thackeray raised objection to replacement of street lights and claimed that the white lights had 'stolen the charm of the Queen's Necklace'.

The Mumbai Heritage Conservation Committee (MHCC) had given a go-ahead to the civic administration to replace the sodium vapour bulbs with white LED.

Later, the Bombay High Court, in August, had directed the civic administration to replace the white LED with yellow LED bulbs.