Bescom is nearing completion of its ambitious plan to lay high-tension wires across the city underground.
Data from the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited (Bescom) shows that it has taken close to 6,600 kilometres of high-tension lines underground out of an estimated 7,033 kilometres.
“We have had problems with completing the project only in a few areas because we have not been able to get road-cutting permissions and an opportunity to survey the area, thanks to a host of ongoing infrastructural works. Apart from this, majority of the work has been completed,” a senior Bescom official said.
