High-tension wires at Shouri market in Rohtak pose risk to visitors

Rohtak, July 14

High-tension wires hanging low from electricity poles on the Partap Talkies road in the crowded Shouri cloth market here are posing serious threat to visitors.

“The electricity wires have been dangling low for the past over a month. It’s a wholesale market and a majority of the customers are shopkeepers who buy clothes in large quantity. The clothes in bundles are carried on heads so that they can be taken outside the market, as four-wheelers cannot enter due to the crowd. So the fear of mishap looms large every time,” said Radheshyam Garg, a cloth merchant.

Hemant Bakshi, district president of the Rohtak Traders’ Association, said. “We will be forced to take stringent steps if the grievance is not redressed soon,” he added.

Mehtab Singh, Executive Engineer, Power Corporation, said, “Acting on the complaint, I have directed the SDO and the JE concerned to resolve the issue at the earliest,” he added. — TNS