Careful if you have to walk across Sector V! Many of the trident lamps there have their bellies open, with the exposed wires threatening to send shockwaves down your spine.  

“A few weeks ago I leaned against a lamppost while eating Maggi at a stall. Next thing I know, I get an electric shock! It was painful. I turned around to see that the lamppost had naked wires hanging lose and I had touched them,” said Krishna Dey, a student of IEM at College More. 

Some of these lampposts have wires jutting out of their bellies, with a door-like structure meant to be its covering, gaping open. Other lampposts have wires hanging from the top. The stretches around the Godrej Watershed and Webel buildings are particularly dangerous what with many such posts lying exposed.

The authorities say the exposed wires are due to construction work to lay underground ducts. 

Once ready, all the internet cables that at present hinge untidily from every pole in the township, will be shifted underground. “Many roads are dug up right now for this work and it’s a mammoth job segregating the cobweb of internet cables from electric wires. This is why the lampposts have exposed wires now,” said Debashis Sen chairman, Nabadiganta Industrial Township Authority (NDITA). “These temporary problems will be solved once that work gets over.”