The coaxial high-speed internet cables are laid by making use of electric poles and the process has been going on for several years, turning them into unsightly structures weighed down by bunches of hanging wires. The Electricity Department and the so-called team of efficient engineers were sleeping all these years and suddenly woke up to realise that poles are being used without permission to carry high-speed internet cables.
One so-called smart engineer makes a drama of cutting cables at some specific location, by which he gets high publicity due to public outcry. It appears that an entire group of officers from Assistant Engineer, Executive/Superintending/Chief Engineer, including the concerned minister, are working in cosy cabins and moving in closed A/C cars, so they could not see what is happening all around or are receiving perks to look the other way, else they would have acted at the very first instance. The vigilant citizens have brought out these aspects on several occasions but they have fallen on deaf ears. It is a well-known fact that all such acts of violations get duly legalised over a period of time.
The Electricity Department has lost its authority and moral status now to cut cables selectively or even totally, other than meekly accepting it due to its own grave fault. The only alternative open is to find a suitable solution, maybe erecting a separate network of poles to shift these hanging cables and to lay new cables.
