Jumbos uproot electric poles set up to bring power supply to village
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Hazaribag: A herd of a dozen elephants destroyed 23 electricity poles at Simrajra village in Barkagaon block on Saturday night. These poles were meant to supply power to this remote area, which has been living in darkness since independence.
A report in TOI on July 8 prompted Hazaribag deputy commissioner Shashi Prakash Singh to instruct the department concerned to set up around 250 poles on the foothills of seven hills from the main road to this village, which is approximately 6 km long.
Overhead wires were also stretched to light up this village before Independence Day. However, on Saturday night, elephants destroyed 23 poles set up by the electricity department at Simrajra village, causing significant losses to the department.
A junior engineer of the electricity department, Pradeep Prajapati, said that the work of re-erecting all the electricity poles has begun so that electricity can be provided to the village as soon as possible.
The elephants have also damaged many houses in villages like Chora, Tongri, and Bartua. He said, "We will set up poles again on a war footing."
Local mukhiya representative Mahendra Manjhi said that villagers were in celebratory mood and eagerly waiting for the power supply to start before elephants damaged poles.
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