Power cable work damages key road
Underground cabling work carried out by Jharkhand Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited (JBVNL), which had badly damaged the 5.5km road connecting City Centre to Barwaddah, has laid bare the lack of coordination between the government departments.
Amrendra Saha, the executive engineer of road construction department that had finished widening the key stretch in 2018, lodged a complaint with the district administration and the department headquarters in Ranchi against JBVNL last month.
JBVNL is carrying out the underground cable-laying work as part of its ambitious Jharkhand Sampurn Bijli Achhadan Yojana.
Under the plan, the state power transmission company will lay 125km underground cables in Dhanbad through private agency JSP Projects at a cost of Rs 331 crore.
