SURKHET: The Birendranagar Municipality will be free from electric poles and cables as it is implementing a project to lay the power cables and telecom cables underground.
The municipality has implemented the project to make the city free from cables crisscrossing the town from one pole to the other and spoiling its beauty.
Deputy Mayor Mohan Maya Dhakal informed that the project would be completed by the coming July.
She said that it would be implemented at ward number 6 of the municipality, the downtown area in the first phase.
The electric poles, she informed, would be removed and the power supply cables would be installed underground.
Dhakal further said that this would lessen the risk of accidents and make the city attractive.
At present, the electricity poles and cables have obstructed and made the streets narrow, and increasing the risk of road accidents.
Sixty per cent cost of this Rs 40 million project would be borne by the municipality while the remaining cost would be met through the matching fund of the federal government, the Municipality’s information officer Deepen Subedi said.
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