As overhead cables laid “illegally” by numerous companies on buildings, timber, pillars and different constructions throughout town are tarnishing town’s skyline and inflicting lack of income to the civic physique, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has determined to conduct a survey. Overhead cable throughout town.
The civic physique is planning to permit telecom corporations, web and broadband service suppliers in addition to TV cable community corporations to put cables via ducts developed by them or make them underground by paying requisite payment to the civic physique.
“The Maharashtra Municipal Corporation Act 1949 does not have any provision for overhead cabling of TV, internet, broadband, optical fiber cables. These illegally laid cables are eroding the skyline and tarnishing the city, so they have to be removed,” stated VG Kulkarni, chief engineer, civil roads division.
He stated the PMC would appoint a personal company to survey the “illegal” overhead cables laid throughout town in order that authorized motion may very well be initiated in opposition to them.
“PMC will make it mandatory for all cable owners to remove overhead cables and lay them through a duct developed by the civic body. They may be charged a lump sum amount or an annual fee per meter of cable. This will help in legalizing the cables and will also increase the revenue for the civic body,” Kulkarni stated.
The municipal physique could appoint one or a number of businesses for the survey of the entire metropolis. The work is to be accomplished in three years.
The PMC goes to launch an amnesty scheme to legalize cables by charging cable corporations a payment and asking them to put underground, the chief engineer stated, “beginning with surveying illegal underground cables to the agency. Have to do Laid in the city and then the overhead cable.”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
