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Remove overhead lines, says CPDCL
Staff Reporter
HYDERABAD: The CPDCL staff is to soon hit the roads with clippers if the cable operators do not remove their overhead lines hanging across the roads.
The cable lines connecting two sides of the road pose major threat during the Ganesh immersion procession when the probability of the idols hitting the wires is imminent.
“Though it posed no ostensible threat to power lines, there is possibility of electricity poles getting uprooted if the pull from the idol is strong enough,” said a CPDCL official.
Previously, Ganesh immersion would become especially menacing for power lines cutting the procession paths, as they presented the threat of snapping with every passing idol.
Last year, there was a major fracas between power officials and Utsav Committee members when an idol from Sanjeeva Reddy Nagar proved to be too tall to pass from beneath the high tension power lines at Punjagutta.
Officials refused to stop the supply because it was a 132 KV line and served as input source to the 33/11 KV substation near Hussainsagar. The issue reached an impasse with neither of the parties willing to budge. Ultimately police had to interfere and wrench a portion of the behind Ganesha’s head to make way. “Such tight spots may not surface this time round as we have made sure that almost all the overhead crossings are replaced with underground cables.
Further, we are taking up the remaining points on war footing, as and when they are informed by the police,” said an official.
Cable operator associations and Ganesh Utsav committees attending the review meetings have already been asked to remove cable lines that might hinder the procession, he said.
Though it was a usual practice to inform cable operators beforehand, instructions are seldom followed forcing officials to carry out the operations themselves at the last moment, he said.
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