Danger of overhead utility wires lurks over city
Updated On: 04 September, 2019 05:24 AM IST | | A correspondent
Post the Tyeb Building fire incident on August 3, the BMC quickly got down to work and cleared the overhead cables from Abdul Rehman Street

A BMC worker cuts off wires on Nagdevi street; the wire-free stretch post-civic body action a couple of weeks ago
A front page report in this paper detailed how South Mumbai was lagging behind in sending all its overhead utility wires underground in the early 1990s, following the BMC diktat."
Last month, one saw how SoBo had erred in not following the rule. The fire brigade was halted for the umpteenth time. Precious minutes ticked by as the vehicle tried to access the narrow Abdul Rehman Street with overhead wires. There was a major fire inside the 112-year-old Tyeb Building.
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