Negligence in removing dangling electric cables criticised
Electric wires surface outside the lamppost's at Ramakrishna Beach in Visakhapatnam.
Visakhapatnam: Officials of the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation have come under severe criticism from various corners for their negligence in removing dangling electric cables and replacing broken electric boxes on Beach Road in the city which led to the electrocution of a boy recently.
B. Abhiram, an eight-year-old boy, lost his life on Sunday evening after coming into contact with a live wire on the Beach Road. Parents and relatives of the victim staged a protest at the GVMC office, blaming the officials for their laxity.
Visakha South MLA Vasupalli Ganesh Kumar expressed anguish over the negligence of the GVMC and EPDCL and said dangling electric ca-bles were posing threat in south constituency as we-ll. Mr Ganesh Kumar ass-ured that he would supp-ort Abhiram’s family and would take the matter to the notice of the CM.
A senior official in GVMC’s electrical depar-tment, on the condition of anonymity, admitted the fault and said they have started rectifying the wiring system of streetlights. Sources said there are 91,775 streetlights under the GVMC limits and out of them 7,000 streetlights are owned and maintained by the GVMC while the rest are being maintained by APEPDCL.
The GVMC electrical wing has repaired the wi-ring system of 500 streetlights so far and the pro-cess is going on, but the lamp post that claimed the life of Abhiram has not been repaired so far, an official said.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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