Underground 11-KV cable dangerously exposed.
Goemkarponn desk
CANACONA: A corner side (including a metre width approach road) on the Culvert-Bridge has caved –in on the Khotigao road early morning, threatening not only the bridge safety, but also the 11-KV High Tension underground Electricity Cable is also exposed dangerously since Thursday morning.
According to sources, the culvert bridge is dangerously exposed after a metre-long road portion on one-side corner of the bridge has caved-in and a big gash/hole has developed between the road and culvert.
The recently laid 11-KV High Tension Electricity cable and a OFC network cable has also been dangerously exposed following the cave-in of the culvert-side and road portion.
Villagers informed that government has taken up the works of repair, reconstructions of four (4) different Culvert bridges in the village and this particular bridge situated approximately at a distance of about 500 metres from Dabel Bridge was constructed in-place of dilapidated Culvert.
“Since there are 11KV Electricity and OFC (Network) underground cables on the route, the bridge construction works were supposed to be carried out in coordination with the Electricity department and PWD. But that coordination didn’t happen and the works were carried out arbitrarily, and not even the panchayat oversaw these works nor paid any attention to the works’, informed a villager.
Meanwhile, Khotigao Sarpanch Anandu Dessai informed he had visited and inspected the site and according informed the PWD engineers who had assured to step-in immediately to repair the damaged road and retaining all.
