Remove above ground cables, wires, junction boxes within 15 days: SMC Commissioner to Telecom service providers and others
Remove above ground cables, wires, junction boxes within 15 days: SMC Commissioner to Telecom service providers and others
Subject: Removal of haphazardly put above ground cables/ wires / utilities by cable operators, telecom service providers and others
Whereas it has been observed that various telecom service operators / internet providers, local cable network operators etc have laid cables / wires, OFCs, junction boxes, utilities etc in a very unorganized and haphazard manner along various roads/areas/ streets in Srinagar City.
Whereas these cables/ wires lines/ junction boxes are mostly dangling from electric poles and in some cases entire rolls are lying on the ground underneath the poles and in some cases these rolls are shattered all along the roads / streets.
Whereas these haphazardly put cables / wires / utilities / lines / junction boxes have created a public nuisance besides being dangerous to life and property as well as making the city aesthetically poor.
Whereas the telecom service operators/ providers and local cable network operators
have time and again been instructed / directed to reorganize these cables /wires / lines/
junction boxes /utilities in an ordered manner following the protocols & norms.
Whereas the telecom service operators/ internet providers and local cable network operators and other such entities responsible for putting these wires, cables etc have failed to do so, and these haphazardly put cables, wires, lines etc continue to create public nuisance and pose threat to public life in Srinagar city.
Whereas, in terms of The JAMMU AND KASHMIR MUNICIPAL CORPORATION
ACT, 2000 as amended from time to time; nuisance includes, “any act, omission, place, animal or a thing which causes or is likely to cause injury, danger, annoyance or offence to the sense of sight, smell or hearing or disturbance to rest or sleep or which is or may be dangerous to life or injurious to health or property”.
Whereas placing of cables/wires/OFCs in such a manner as explained creates a public nuisance and is hazardous to life and property.
Now therefore all the telecom service operators/ internet providers and local cable network operators and other such entities responsible for putting these wires, cables etc are hereby given a final opportunity to remove these wires/ lines / cables / junction boxes/ utilities etc within 15 days from the issue of this notice failing which Srinagar Municipal Corporation will disconnect/ remove these cables / lines / wires / junction boxes / utilities etc at the risk and cost of the concerned telecom service providers / internet operators/ cable operators. Any new laying of cables shall be done only after getting requisite permissions, clearances and following due protocols and norms applicable.
