Tamil Nadu Electricity Board [TNEB] — cable tv wires on electricity poles - continuous public nuisance of cable operators

This is a public welfare complaint

With the failure of the electricity department to hammer out a solution to the illegal, arbitrary and unauthorized use of the department's poles by cable television operators at killiyanallur, manachanallur taluk, tiruchirappalli (Dt) - 621213, the overhanging wires continue to create the public nuisance, besides posing threat to life and property. The danger to life on account of the haphazard pulling of wires over electric poles,

The danger arises when the television cable and the live electricity, cable, which run simultaneously over the pole, come in contact with each other. Our village cable operators do not comply with safety standards. They should make use of insulated messenger wires.

Instead, they lay gi or metallic wires which are good conductors of electricity. The danger is aggravated especially when high tension conductors snap. Snapping of power lines may be at a far distance, but since the television, cable runs on the particular line which has snapped, the person handling the gadget at home may be electrocuted due to transmission of direct supply. And sometimes, such as electric shocks are fatal in nature.

The higher electricity officials opine that the government needs to formulate a policy to restrict the use of poles by cable tv operators in the interest of the safety of the public. Thanks