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Underground duct project for more roads

Chennai: The Chennai Corporation’s pilot initiative to lay common underground ducts to pass fibre optic cables of various Internet and cable TV service providers has been extended to more roads in the city.

After meetings Corporation officials, Internet and cable TV service providers have formed a ‘Chennai cable consortium’ to lay underground ducts along Cathedral Road, Radhakrishnan Salai, Anna Nagar Second Avenue and Anna Nagar Third Avenue. The project was first launched in Nungambakkam High Road.

In order to ensure compliance from all service providers, the Corporation will not grant road cut permissions for laying telecom and cable TV wires along these roads for the next two years.

At present, many of the service providers use streetlight poles and buildings to carry cables across localities.

Tangled cables clutter the cityscape and low-hanging cables obstruct movement and also lead to accidents.

Although the consortium would be in charge of the ducting and road restoration, the Corporation would oversee the work. Service providers in the consortium would have separate pipes for their companies’ cables.

To facilitate repairs and maintenance, inspection chambers would be built at intervals.

This would do away with the need to cut roads every time a fault occurred. Each service provider would have to pay track rent of Rs. 9,400 per km per annum to the Corporation for the use of the ducts.

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