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Shalimar Bagh free of overhead cables web
Hindustan Times Delhi
|December 09, 2025
Months after the Delhi government announced shifting of overhead electricity cables underground, northwest Delhi's Shalimar Bagh has become the city's first locality to lay a 10-km underground cable network, said the Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (TPDDL).
"The newly-laid underground network has replaced the open and tangled wires hanging overhead. Since the completion, no power-supply related complaints have been reported from the area," a TPDDL spokesperson said.
The pilot project was launched by chief minister Rekha Gupta in July at a cost of ₹8 crore. The Shalimar Bagh project, which was commissioned the same month and completed in October, marks the first large-scale replacement of decades-old overhead wires with an underground cable network in the capital.
Power minister Ashish Sood told HT on Sunday that the pilot project aims to showcase the Delhi government's vision for a Viksit Delhi and India.
This story is from the December 09, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Delhi.
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