Trenches pose threat to school children

Trenches being dug to lay pipelines for Mission Bhagiratha is posing a danger, especially to school- going children and the elderly in the old Adilabad district.

Staff of the private schools are worried about the safety of their students and take care to remain with the kids till their parents receive them, but this not the case with staff of the government schools.   

The laying pipelines is leading to the huge potholes and trenches that are  resulting in accidents where drivers lose balance and fall.  Residents say that they remain clueless about the trenches that are dug overnight with the help of earthmoving machines, and say that this is quite dangerous.

One can see the roads dotted with potholes, trenches and heaps of excavated  gravel on the roads blocking the free flow of traffic and posing life threat to the elders and children.

According to people involved in the pipe laying works, the trenches will be  filled up only after completion  of the  work in that particular stretch.

Students and kids carrying their schools bags were doing acrobats for crossing the trenches to reach safer places. On seeing the indiscriminate digging of roads, the worried parents going to schools to take back their kids safely.     

A parent of school going child K. Ravinder of Vidyanagar colony in Adilabad town said really he was worried over the danger the trenches are posing to the lives of the school going children.

Loose wires endanger citizen's lives

The loose and snapped electric live wires that dot the city and rural areas are putting the thousands of lives in danger in the Adilabad district of Telangana. Even as the wires snapped due to rust and being worn out, they were strewn on the ground causing grave threat to the passerby.  Dangling live electric wires on the roads are proving to be a sure –shot killer.

There was huge delay in switching off the power whereas the situation needed immediate action.

Overgrown branches have led to the Transco staff cutting off the branches near transformers. Incidents of transformers getting burnt are on the rise these days in the Adilabad town.       

Electric poles are uprooted and bent to a side due to heavy rains with gales that struck the district.

Crows add to the damage. Such incidents are frequently taking place during the rainy season.

Incidents of death of farmers and cattle due to accidentally connecting to the live electric wires or snapped wires or loose wires are on the rise in the district. Recently, a lorry conductor came in touch with the lose wire lying on the cabin of the lorry and was electrocuted at Adilabad market yard. 

A mason narrowly escaped from being electrocuted while working when the live loose electric wire came in contact with the iron tool near district court in the Adilabad town. The alerted mason dropped the iron tool and saved his life.