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Capital gets highest power supply tower

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation’s engineers have now constructed the Capital’s highest electricity supply towers at Vikas Marg here to make way for the elevated metro to be commissioned by December 2009.

The metro engineers, who are building the Indraprastha-Anand Vihar metro line, have successfully lifted the highest electricity overhead transmission lines of 220 kV at Vikas Marg. The engineers have built three new steel towers that are 53.5 metres in height each and one tower of 44.5 metres, thus raising the overhead supply lines by more than 20 metres.

The erection of the new towers was completed in a record time of 15 days without any disruption of electricity to the residents of Patparganj and Geeta Colony. The two colonies are supplied electricity through these lines.

Executed at a cost of Rs.2 crore, the work had never been done in Delhi before. The design for the system was taken from the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited and the clearance for it was obtained from the electrical inspector of the Delhi Government. The total length of the electricity lines between towers built by the Metro is 890 metres.

As the life of all metro structures is 120 years, the new towers will rejuvenate power supply in the area. Besides ensuring better transmission, the new wiring will be a special boon for the residents of Lalita Park as earlier the old transmission lines were almost touching the roofs of their houses thus posing a danger, especially during the rainy season.

The new transmission lines will now have adequate clearance from these buildings. In addition, one of the roads inside the Lalita Park colony was four metres wide on either side as one of the towers was in the middle of the road. Now that the tower has been removed, the road has become 14 metres wide without any disruption on the road.

The towers built by the metro are three-fourth in comparison with the height of the 72.5 metres tall Qutub Minar in Delhi.

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