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The Hindu
The Hindu
National
Special Correspondent

CESC begins drive to sever cables tied to electric poles

Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Corporation (CESC) has launched a drive to remove unauthorised cables tied to the electric poles and transformer units across the city, on Saturday.

Despite the warning by the CESC for removing the cables that have been tied illegally on the poles or pay the requisite fee to it for using the infrastructure, complying with the guidelines, the cables of cable TV operators and internet service providers remained on the poles, forcing the CESC engineers to launch the operation.

A few weeks ago the CESC had threatened to pull out all the unauthorised television and Internet connection cables tied to electricity poles if the cable television and Internet service providers did not regularise them by paying the stipulated fee.

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