{"id":68496,"date":"2020-07-25T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=68496"},"modified":"2020-07-24T17:41:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T12:41:13","slug":"karachi-south-district-free-overhead-wires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/karachi-south-district-free-overhead-wires.html","title":{"rendered":"Karachi\u2019s South District to be made free of overhead wires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Karachi: The city\u2019s district administration on Thursday launched a project to remove overhead wires from the South District, a news source reported. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has sanctioned the project and 18 private telecom companies would collaborate to complete this project worth PKR 4 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/karachis-numaish-chowrangi-underpass-completed-august-2020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Karachi\u2019s Numaish Chowrangi underpass to be completed in August 2020<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the first phase, authorities concerned would clear Karachi\u2019s South District of overhead telephone and television wires. Later, the project would be extended to other parts of the city. In the South District, the project would reach completion in four stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first stage, overhead cables in Red Zone would be shifted underground, followed by DHA and Clifton. In the last stage, remaining areas of the district would undergo the same treatment. To this effect, South Karachi DC Irshad Ahmed Sodhar stated that that the district would be clear of overhead wires by the end of 2020. He added that the administration would expand the project to remaining areas of Karachi immediately after \u2013 taking two years to complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sindh-cm-approves-pkr-88-mn-karachi-cleanliness-drive.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sindh CM approves PKR 88 mn for Karachi cleanliness drive<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DC explained that the administration planned to put the wires two feet under the ground along the main roads of Karachi. He added that this project would cover the shifting of 400 kilometres (kms) of overhead wires, including the wires in the South District stretching across approximately 100 kms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The city\u2019s district administration on Thursday launched a project to remove overhead wires from the South District, a news source reported. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has sanctioned the project and 18 private telecom companies would collaborate to complete this project worth PKR 4 billion. Read: Karachi\u2019s Numaish Chowrangi underpass to be completed in August 2020 During the first phase, authorities concerned would clear Karachi\u2019s South District of overhead telephone and television wires. Later, the project would be extended to other parts of the city. In the South District, the project would reach completion in four stages. In the first stage, overhead cables in Red Zone would be shifted underground, followed by DHA and Clifton. In the last stage, remaining areas of the district would undergo the same treatment. To this effect, South Karachi DC Irshad Ahmed Sodhar stated that that the district would be clear of overhead wires by the end of 2020. He added that the administration would expand the project to remaining areas of Karachi immediately after \u2013 taking two years to complete. Read: Sindh CM approves PKR 88 mn for Karachi cleanliness drive The DC explained that the administration planned to put the wires two&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":59956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20385],"tags":[35610],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-development-projects","8":"tag-details-on-karachis-south-district-to-be-made-free-of-overhead-wires","9":"cat-20385-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Karachi South District to be made free of overhead wires - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The city\u2019s district administration on Thursday launched a project to remove overhead wires from the South District of Karachi, a news source reported.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/karachi-south-district-free-overhead-wires.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Karachi South District to be made free of overhead wires - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The city\u2019s district administration on Thursday launched a project to remove overhead wires from the South District of Karachi, a news source reported.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/karachi-south-district-free-overhead-wires.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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