Kolkata: The day after a 25-year-old young man with a bicycle died on Jalan Salt Lake after his wheels were tangled in the cable cable scattered at the CarrieGeway, Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation on Thursday started driving to remove the cable that was not used on the road.
“Our civil workers have cleared the chaos of cable cables that do not work loosely fall on the road.
We have also instructed the cable operator to remove dead cables as soon as possible and also seek help from Bidhannagar police to begin legal proceedings against them,” said a senior corporation official.
Municipal Bidhannagar.
Toi has time and once again highlight the dangers associated with loose hanging cables in and around Salt Lake for the past few months.
Even when a drive to clean up the chaos of chaos occurs on Thursday, yelling the overhead cable line can be seen hanging from one street lights to the other in some of the main arteries and the city intersection and some are found wrapped around trees in many places.
“The chaos of the cable is everywhere in the entire Salt Lake.
It’s very dangerous and risky for people like those of us who are riding a bicycle to move on these streets, more after dark when it becomes more difficult to see the lines of cables jerked From a distance, “said Kawshik Dutta, a resident of Block BD.
“We were unable to lose our lives because of this cable chaos.
The environment around the CK-Cl Block Park is full of jerked cables and in places where residents must lift the cable by hand to somehow enter the park or cross road under the hanging cable,” said Diperkar Partner, Assistant Secretary CK Clock Committee.
On Thursday, TOI found the cable lying on the road between Cap Camp to Baisakhi, walking around the city center and on several CC block lines and block BD in Salt Lake.
However, there are also places like CE Block, De Block, a road near Purta Bhavan and stretches near Baisakhi Abasan which has been cleaned from cable chaos.
Stretching between Baisakhi Island and Tank No.
4, where the Wednesday accident took place, also cleaned from the cable.
Local cable operators in Salt Lake said: “What happens is very unfortunate.
We clean and remove the cable lines that do not work like and when it comes to our notification from inside the block.
Removing cables from the main highway is the MSO responsibility,” the cable operator said .
BMC officials said they had tried long to solve the cable chaos in Salt Lake.
“We have talked to the cable operator many times in this chaos but with a little result.
We will discuss this issue with higher authority if necessary to take hard action,” said the BMC Administrator Board Chairman Krishna Chakraborty.