A mesh of wires, that snapped when Cyclone Amphan struck the city on May 20, lie on and hang over Dover Road on Thursday. Picture by Pradip SanyalThe city roads will be free of defunct overhead cables in 30 years at the current rate of progress of the teams removing them. Dud cables have been removed from a stretch of Harish Mukhjerjee Road and some areas in Alipore over the past six days. Pedestrians are having to wriggle their way past cables hanging dangerously across the city roads every day, three weeks after the storm had struck. The police got involved and the work was hampered,” said an official of an MSO.

Source: The Telegraph June 11, 2020 19:30 UTC