In January this year, the Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) robbed Marine Drive of its iconic golden Queen's Necklace, replacing the sodium vapour streetlights with white LEDs. However, this move faced a lot of political backlash and BEST managed to find regular sodium vapour lamps in its spares inventory and went back to the old arrangement.

The move to replace sodium vapour lamps on Marine Drive with LED lights faced a lot of political backlash, and BEST eventually went back to the regular golden lamps. File pic