SRINAGAR: The Srinagar Smart City Limited (SSCL) authorities on Thursday said that a substantial area of Shehr-e-Khaas will be made wire-free by March 2024. They said that the work in this regard has already commenced.
Chief Engineer SSCL, Iftikhar Kakroo said that approximately Rs 70 crore are being spent at multiple places of downtown Srinagar to lay the underground wiring and make the areas wire-free. “We have already started work in this regard here in downtown areas as a substantial area of Shehr-e-Khaas is being made wire free,” Kakroo said.
He added that three areas including the City centre Lal Chowk, Residency Road and Polo Ground have been made wire free as all the wires have been laid underground. “Moreover, Jhelum Riverfront—the already completed project by Srinagar Smart City Limited (SSCL), is also being made wireless.”
Pertinently, the exclusively pedestrian market—Polo View has become the first wire free place in J&K where all the wires have been laid underground.
