Yangon’s Dangerous Overhead Power lines to be Replaced: Following a spate of recent deaths from falling electricity lines, a program to replace dangerous overhead lines will soon begin, said a spokesperson of the Yangon City Electricity Supply Board.
U Toe Aung, secretary of the YESB, an organisation under the Ministry of Electric Power, told Mizzima on July 14 that his organisation took responsibility for the recent incidents and would replace all lines deemed to be dangerous with new ones.
Yangon Regional Hluttaw MP Dr Nyo Nyo Thin (Independent, Bahan township) said that if the program did not start soon then she would introduce a proposal to the regional hluttaw for money to come from the emergency budget.
“There is money in the emergency budget and the Ministry of Electric Power has foreign aid at its disposal, why is this not employed for the safety of Yangon’s residents,” said Dr Nyo Nyo Thin.
Eleven News reported that three women were killed and a child injured when an electricity cable fell in a marketplace in Hlaingtharyar township on July 11, they also reported at two additional fatal incidents involving falling electricity cables during the month of June.
http://mizzima.com/mizzima-news/myanmar/item/11762-yangon-s-dangerous-overhead-power-lines-to-be-replaced
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