Margao cable laying: power department served deadline BY HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, FEB 4 - The Power department was on Saturday issued a deadline to complete the underground cable laying work in Margao city by March this year.
The instructions came from the district Road Digging Committee in the presence of Power Minister, Digambar Kamat this morning. The Power department was told in clear terms to complete the ongoing work by March to enable the PWD to re-instate the damaged roads, well ahead of the Monsoons. As far as the second phase of cable laying work is concerned, the Road digging committee granted permission to the Power department to take up the work only after monsoons. So far, underground cable laying work is being taken up in the first phase around areas close to Malbhat, Pajifond and Vidyanagar-Gogol. Power officials expressed confidence to honour the new deadline by March, saying that work is progressing on the underground cable work as scheduled. In fact, Assistant Engineer, Electricity, Sunil Wadekar informed that the department will test charge all the three feeders coming within the areas of Malbhat, Pajifond and Vidyanagar in the month of March. Officials representing BSNL, PWD, and Water supply were also present at the meeting, which was chaired by the SDM, Suresh Pilarnekar.