Major areas of walled city to go free of hanging wires
IN PROGRESS Underground duct construction, started by the Jaipur Smart City Limited in January this year at two major markets of the walled city, will be completed within a week
JAIPUR: In an attempt to get rid of hanging wires in the walled city, the underground duct construction, started by the Jaipur Smart City Limited in January this year at two major markets of the locality, would be completed within a week’s time, said officials.
Even as the underground duct construction for laying of electrical wires has been completed for the Kishanpole area, the work in the Chandpole market is still under progress.
Under the project for making the walled city free of hanging wires, 10 roads and seven junctions were to be covered.
Alok Ranjan, chief executive officer of the JSCL, said the work in the Chandpole market is near completion and will almost take a week’s time. “We have also initiated the work for Chura Raasta and the Gangauri bazaar,” said Ranjan. Hanging overhead wires in the walled in the city have always been a matter of concern for the residents. The dangerously hanging wires have often been a cause of outages in the city during the storms.
The underground wires will stop fire incidents happening due to the hanging wires and reduce the chances of electricity theft, said officials. The underground set-up for laying the electrical wires has a cross duct system where the electrical wires at the junction may cross in two directions. Smart poles have also been enacted at the ducts at several places, which will calculate the frequency of traffic in the area though the attached traffic sensor. These poles will also ease the maintenance of the duct, said officials. Even as Kishnapole, Chandpole, Chaura Rasta and Gangauri bazaar were the four major areas taken up under the project, the construction at all ten roads in the area did not start simultaneously due to traffic concerns, said Officials.
Heavy congestion in the city that could have arisen due to simultaneous construction of duct in all the four major pro- posed areas might have led to little scope for traffic diversion in the interconnected walled city roads, added officials.
“With duct construction work at Chandpole being at its final stage, JSCL is gearing up to begin with smart road construction work (cement concrete roads) in a week’s time. Corrective action would be taken to reduce further delays and speed up the execution of the work,” said Ranjan.