HOW TO FREE THE ROADS WHICH WERE WIDENED AT AN EXORIBITANT COST FOR FREE FLOW OF TRAFFIC IN LUDHIANA AND ALL ITS TOWNS

THERE IS A NEED TO REMOVE THE ENCROACHMENTS ON ROADS WHICH ARE DUE TO THE ELECTRICITY POLES/ ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS .
INITIAL PLANNING CATERED FOR all govt infrastructure including electric supply poles/ transformers/water supply lines/telephone cables/optic fibres cables/sewerage lines/storm water pipes to be fixed/erected over ground/under ground on the govt owned land which happened to be roads,streets and their sides.
Due to the development activities taken up by the Central, State and Municipal authorities over a period of time the land on both the sides of the streets/roads has been paved with bitumen, PCC/ inter locking /simple tiles in order to widen them. The electricity poles and transformers poles stand there only where ever they were before the widening as no funds were kept aside to re fix them at an appropriate place to ACTUALLY widen the road. The fund paucity also adds to such absence of detailed planning and cutting corners is also done by authorities to appease the present powers that be. This job can only be done by the POWERCOM authorities which on request from the Municipal Authorities will have to remove and re-erect these again so as to free the already widened space for use by public.

1. As of now in the absence of such planning and execution the very purpose of the widening these roads and streets stands defeated.
2. In fact it has become a boon for the encroachers to put their good next to these poles and rehriwala/farrhiwala to put their goods next to these poles.
3. Wrong Parking close to these places which are made safe due to these electric poles is another factor to add to the parking and traffic chaos of the city.
4. At night during poor visibility periods these poles have become the source of many ACCIDENTS many of them fatal and lot of persons have lost their lives due to this reason.

Basically what is the remedy?
The Municipal authorities have to forward a request to the POWERCOM authorities. The POWERCOM engineers will be too happy to redesign the power lines so that the poles are removed REPLACED BY more sturdy poles which have strong cantilever angle irons for power lines to pass overhead OR they could put the wires underground depending upon the area and cost involved. Similarly the POWERCOM ENGINEERS could design strong iron rails platforms cantilevered to place the transformers on top thus freeing the space underneath for free flow of traffic.
As a resident of Ludhiana I am writing this to build awareness so that space is made free from all hindrances and obstacles which restrict the traffic flow of traffic IN LUDHIANA CITY AND IT MANY NEIGHBOURING TOWNS . This is actually a technical problem which exits on ALL INDIA BASIS . Since it is state subject an advisory can be sent to all states by the concerned central authority.