Vellore Corporation lays concrete carriageway without relocating electrical poles

With the onset of the northeast monsoon, the Vellore Corporation is laying factual carriageway connected the widened Chenganatham Hill Road successful Rangapuram adjacent Collectorate connected Chennai - Bengaluru Highway (NH 48) without relocating existing Tangedco electrical poles.

Residents person criticized the roadworthy laying enactment without relocation of electrical poles by the civic assemblage arsenic they said that the caller agelong with the electrical poles volition airs information for motorists particularly during night. It volition besides trim full roadworthy abstraction that tin beryllium utilized by motorists. “Road laying enactment without relocating electrical poles shows deficiency of coordination betwixt authorities agencies. It lone puts roadworthy users including pedestrians astatine hazard successful utilizing the recently laid stretches particularly during night,” said B. Prema, a resident.

Corporation officials said that the existing Chenganatham Hill Road is astir 10 metres-wide . The agelong connects Rangapuram and Mullakollai that comes nether ward 24 of Zone-II of the civic body.

Over the years, amerciable structures were built connected some sides of the stretch. It blocked escaped question of vehicles including trucks, lorries, and authorities buses. After complaints from residents, astir 100 encroachments, mostly houses, connected the agelong were razed.   As portion of Smart Cities Mission programme, the 1.6-km-stretch was widened into 15 metres connected some sides of the agelong for casual question of vehicles. The widened agelong is being re-laid with cement factual nether Chief Minister Road Development Scheme (CMRDS) 2024-25 astatine a outgo of ₹ 7 crore.

Corporation officials said that the civic assemblage has requested officials astatine Tangedco sub-station astatine Sathuvachari to relocate much than a twelve identified electrical poles to the utmost extremity of the carriageway for relay work.   As the northeast monsoon has begun, backstage contractors person sped up enactment connected the factual carriageway connected the agelong without waiting for Tangedco officials to relocate electrical poles arsenic the recently laid agelong requires astatine slightest 10 days to wholly adust earlier rainfall resumes.   Any further hold successful the roadworthy enactment volition escalate the full task cost. “Unlike bitumen stretches, which person to beryllium laid connected one-go, factual carriageways are done successful abstracted blocks. Road abstraction occupied by electrical poles volition beryllium re-laid erstwhile they are relocated. It volition not impact different re-laid portions connected the stretch,” R. Lakshmanan, Commissioner, Vellore Corporation, told The Hindu. Tangedco officials said that relocation of electrical poles is done based connected the full fig of consumers, who would beryllium affected owed to powerfulness cuts and the benignant of transmission powerfulness lines specified arsenic High Tension (HT) and Low Tension (LT). Re-location of electrical poles connected the agelong volition beryllium done successful the coming days, Tangedco officials said.