The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has issued a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for a Centralized Web-Based Street Light Monitoring System and directed its field offices, NHAI and NHIDCL officials to ensure implementation across National Highway projects.
The SOP has been approved for the Centralized Web-Based Street Light Monitoring System and Portal (CCMS) and circulated to implementing agencies of the ministry, including State PWDs, NHAI and NHIDCL.
According to the Office Memorandum dated 25 May 2026, all MoRTH Regional Officers, NHIDCL Executive Directors and NHAI Regional Officers have been directed to ensure implementation of and compliance with the SOP in their respective jurisdictions for all existing, under-implementation and new National Highway works.
The CCMS platform has been developed to provide real-time monitoring, control and analytics of street lighting systems installed on National Highways.
The system will allow authorities to monitor the operational status of street lights, energy consumption, electrical parameters and fault alerts through a centralized dashboard.
The ministry said the initiative follows directions issued during Senior Officers’ Meetings and is intended to create a unified platform for monitoring highway lighting infrastructure across agencies.
Two pilot implementations have already been completed under NHAI’s Regional Office in UP East (Varanasi) and MoRTH’s Regional Office in Hyderabad.
Under the SOP, the system will support live monitoring of working and non-working street lights, automatic ON/OFF scheduling, energy consumption tracking, fault detection and performance analytics.
Data from field devices such as feeder intelligence units, power monitors and energy meters will be transmitted to a central control station through API-based integration and GSM/GPRS communication networks.
The platform will provide monitoring layers ranging from agency-wide dashboards for MoRTH, NHAI and NHIDCL to project-level and device-level monitoring.
At the project level, users will be able to track CCMS status, power supply availability, last data update, total lights, working and non-working lights, and ON/OFF status.
According to the SOP, the portal is intended to improve operational efficiency, support early fault detection, enable energy monitoring and savings verification, and enhance transparency and accountability across National Highway lighting networks.
The SOP also assigns responsibilities to Regional Offices, Project Implementation Units, implementing agencies and CCMS administrators for ensuring data accuracy, uninterrupted data flow, field-device maintenance and operation of the digital monitoring platform.
