Dangling cable snip begins at last in parts of Calcutta

The Calcutta Municipal Corporation on Saturday snipped television and Internet cables in some places that were, at times, a risk to pedestrians and two-wheeler riders.

Civic officials, however, could not say if the CMC would undertake a similar drive across the city in the coming days.

Low-hanging cables along Rashbehari Avenue, Lansdowne Road, Gariahat Road South, Alipore Road, Belvedere Road, Baker Road and in the Hastings area were snipped on Saturday.

The action came after Firhad Hakim, the chairperson of the CMC’s board of administrators, met multi-system operators (MSOs) twice in the aftermath of Cyclone Amphan in the past two weeks, a civic engineer said.