Shalimar Bagh free of overhead cables web
New Delhi, Dec. 9 -- Months after the Delhi government announced shifting of overhead electricity cables underground, northwest Delhi's Shalimar Bagh has become the city's first locality to lay a 10-km underground cable network, said the Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (TPDDL).
"The newly-laid underground network has replaced the open and tangled wires hanging overhead. Since the completion, no power-supply related complaints have been reported from the area," a TPDDL spokesperson said.
The pilot project was launched by chief minister Rekha Gupta in July at a cost of Rs.8 crore. The Shalimar Bagh project, which was commissioned the same month and completed in October, marks the first large-scale replacement of decades-old overhead wir...
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