PMC removes unauthorised optical fibre cables in Wanowrie

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has removed unauthorised optical fibres in the Wanowrie area while filing a police complaint against unknown persons for laying the cables underground.

The PMC road department had in the past given permission to lay underground optical fibres to telecom companies including government and private.

In Wanowrie, the PMC road department found that one of the private telecom companies laid down 700 metres of optical fibre near Shivarkar garden area. The local residents registered a complaint to PMC officials.

Sunil Kadam, executive engineer of road department said, “We had given permission for 300 metres of cables to the VPPN firm. The company paid for 200 metres; however, we came to know from local residents that the company placed a total of 700 metres underground cables.”