Residents living in fear of overhead high tension cables in West and Southwest Delhi localities can now heave a sigh of relief as work to remove them started today.
Congress MP from Rohtak Deependra Hooda and Parliamentary Secretary to the Chief Minister and spokesperson of Congress Legislative Party Mukesh Sharma inauguarted the work for removal of 36-km-long 33 KVA high tension cables by South Haryana Power Distribution Corporation at Bindapur Prajapat Colony.
The cables pass through several residential areas including Punjabi Bagh, Paschim Vihar, Raghuvir Nagar, Vishnu Garden, Vikas Puri, Janakpuri, Pankha road, Prajapat Colony, Bindapur Village, Vishu Vihar, Bhagwati Vihar, Bindapur DDA Flats, Raja Puri, Madhu Vihar, Palam and Bijwasan before reaching the Maruti Industrial Area.
The removal of the cables would directly benefit more than 20,000 residents of six assembly constituencies and also over a lakh others who were not able to increase the floors of their houses due to fear of the low-lying high tension electricity cables, Sharma said.
"The removal of the cables would also mean that those houses where power connections were refused because of the risk from the low-lying high tension cables would now be able to get electricity connections," he said.
Sharma thanked Haryana Government for removing the cables without charging any development fees from the people of Delhi, said "finally, the residents would be able to live in a safe environment".
He said Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Diskhit had taken a personal interest in the matter and held several high-level meetings with Haryana officials.
"Even former MP Sajjan Kumar had approached the Haryana Government in his personal capacity to appeal for removal of the cables," Sharma said.
While addressing the function in Bindapur Prajapat Colony area of west Delhi, Hooda said the significant contribution of the people of Haryana in the all-round development of Delhi and NCR cannot be denied.
He expressed confidence that the people of Delhi would ensure the return of the Congress for a record-breaking fourth term.
