The Birendranagar Municipality is implementing a project to lay the power cables and telecom cables underground.

The municipality has brought this project to make the city free of power supply and telecom lines crisscrossing the town from one pole to the other and spoiling its beauty.

Deputy Mayor Mohan Maya Dhakal said the project would be completed by coming July. In the first phase it would be implemented at ward number 6 of the municipality, the downtown area. The electric poles would be removed and the power supply cables would be installed underground.

According to her, this step will lessen the risk of accidents and also make the city attractive. At present, the electricity poles and cables have obstructed and made the streets narrow, increasing the risk of road accidents, besides being an eye-sore.

The municipal assembly has kept this project as one of the key projects of the municipality for the current fiscal year.

Sixty per cent cost of this Rs 40 million project would be borne by the municipality while the remaining cost would be met through the matching fund of the federal government, the Municipality’s information officer Deepen Subedi said.