A tender for village Akola (NI) in Badnapur taluka, Jalna district, calls for providing and erecting a solar street light arrangement mounted on a 6-metre GI (galvanised iron) pipe pole along the road leading to the village's smashanbhumi, or cremation ground.
A recurring, low-cost tender category
Solar street lights on smashanbhumi approach roads have become one of the most common single-unit rural tender categories across Marathwada — as seen already this week in Georai's Mangirbaba Smashanbhumi solar high mast tender — since these roads sit at village edges, well outside grid-lit stretches, but see regular foot traffic at all hours.
Why a GI pipe pole
A galvanised iron pipe pole is the standard, lowest-cost pole choice for single-unit rural solar lights, offering adequate corrosion resistance for its expected service life without the added cost of an octagonal or decorative pole design reserved for higher-visibility municipal stretches.
Part of Jalna's wider gram panchayat lighting cycle
This tender sits alongside this week's other Jalna district solar lighting award at Ambedkar Nagar in Ghansawangi taluka, pointing to a fairly active district-wide cycle of small, targeted solar street light works moving through Jalna's various talukas this season.
