Kolkata Municipal Corporation serves shift-or-snip ultimatum on cables to service providers

Begin shifting overhead cables on Harish Mukherjee Road in south Kolkata to underground ducts within seven days or the wires will be snipped, Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) officials told cable operators, multi-system operators and Internet service providers on Monday.

The civic body has built underground ducts along 2km of the road that have been lying unused for over two months.

The Telegraph had reported on November 24 that the ducts were ready but the overhead cables for which they were built, were still hanging dangerously overground.

KMC had then fixed a meeting with the service providers to discuss a deadline about shifting overhead cables.