The administration is planning to extend the proposed underground power cable project to create a common duct that would house all other cables like the fibre optic network.
The District Collector has asked the GVMC engineers to do a detailed study and come out with a concrete proposal which after due clearances from Chief Minister and others would have to be included in the tenders scheduled to be floated by June 15 for the World Bank funded underground power cabling under the AP Disaster Recovery Project (APDRP).
District Collector N. Yuvaraj has directed GVMC Superintendent Engineer Anand Rao to draw up a proposal for an integrated duct that would carry all the cables and asked him to provide a per-metre cost break up. The Collector reviewed the proposal on Tuesday at a meeting with AP Eastern Power Distribution Company Ltd CMD R. Mutyala Raju, Vice Chairman VUDA T. Baburao Naidu, Executive Director of AP Fiber Net V Krishna and others. The Collector directed the officials to prepare a comprehensive proposal for being put up to Chief Minister for his clearance before submitting a revised proposal to the World Bank and then floating the tenders including the work.
The GVMC has already laid 62 km common ducting along the BRTS route, which is yet to be fully utilised. The APEPDCL would be using six to 10 km of existing duct in its underground cabling project and lay a duct in new areas.
