Team Goemkarponn
CANACONA: The haphazard way of underground cabling works of electrical cables, continue to hinder the smooth functioning of various basic services in Canacona.
On Tuesday evening, a main water-supply line was breached by the electricity underground cabling party, while trying to drill the cable underground on the road between Palolem –Agonda Junction to Char-Rasta, flooding the entire drainage upto bal-bhavan at Char-Rasta.
Tons of gallons of water is wasted as the water fills up into the drains virtually causing the drains flooded all along.
The working party when questioned stated, their digging is more than a metre deep while the water-pipeline, telecom cables (particularly of BSNL) which are not even half a metre deep are affected, due to careless way of diggings or drifflings committed by the UG electricity cabling works.
Meanwhile, the electricity underground cabling laying contractor is accused of leaving the site, without clearing the mud from the roads excavated to lay the cables on the internal road.
In one such incident, about 350 metres of an internal road in Agonda is excavated on its side, and the entire excavated mud is dumped on the road, making the road even non-alkable. The working party with no proper supervision closed the vast trenches it had excavated after pulling two huge cables up to an existing transformer, and left the site without clearing the remaining mud from the road.
This road used by the residents heavily continues to be in the same state, as heavy dusts have caused great hardships to the residential houses in the locality at Karashir moll. In Spite of complaints , even the PWD (Roads) failed to clear the road from the debris left on the entire road stretch with every passing vehicle of 2- wheelers are forced to use at their own risks of skidding. Infact, several 2-wheeler riders have fallen due to the uncleaned road, and it continues to remain in the same way.
There are also complaints from the residents in other areas where the road is cut and the trenches are not properly closed, while fibre cables of telecom service providers are regularly cut throwing the services off-guard for long periods.
