Bengaluru: Five years after the state government announced a project to convert overhead electricity lines into underground and aerial bundled cables, over 4,800 km of both the 11kV and low tension wires combined are yet to be awarded tenders for conversion.
The recent case of a mother and her toddler dying after coming in contact with a live wire has highlighted the need for the project to pick up pace to prevent another accident.
As of October, four years since the Bescom began work, over 96% of the high tension wires in the city have been moved underground and over 97% of the low tension wires have been converted to aerial bundled cables.
