HT power lines: Consider Serene residents’ plea, HC tells Transco

Hyderabad: Justice A Abhishek Reddy of the Telangana high court on Thursday sought to know from Hyderabad Growth Corridor and TS Transco officials why they cannot consider the plea of residents of Serene County Owners’ Welfare Association, Gachibowli, and conceal high tension power lines in their colony, by taking them underground.
The county’s counsel Prasad Rao Vemulapalli said they were not opposed to laying HT power lines to the growth corridor. “What we are saying is that let the authorities lay them through underground cables. In any case, they have been laying such underground cables at many places. Our area is not more than 150 metres and it is not difficult for them to conceal these dangerous lines beneath the earth to this limited extent,” he said.
The high court had earlier recorded the contention of Transco’s counsel Vinod Reddy that following resistance from the residents, the task of laying power lines in the county area was stopped. “Let that order continue for some more time, in the meantime, we will respond to the contentions raised in the counter filed by Transco,” the petitioner’s counsel said. In any case, the task of laying power lines would take more than six months, he added.