Elephanta Caves gets permanent electricity 70 years after independence
Seventy years after Independence of the country, the island that houses the UNESCO World Heritage site Elephanta Caves has got the gift of electricity. The world-famous Gharapuri Isle has finally got electricity through a 7.5-km long undersea cable.
Mumbai. Electricity has first been released from UNESCO World Heritage in Elephanta Island. It is only 12 km away from the Mumbai-based Gateway of India. The 15 sq km area, which is sunk in the dark, is now awake with light. Electricity has arrived for the first time on February 22 in the three villages of Morabandar, Rajbunder and Khetbandar. For this, the cable has been set up to 7 km in the sea.
– Prime Minister Narendra Modi also mentioned the project on Sunday. There is a lot of misery in the field of lightning.
– About 100 people worked 8 to 10 hours a day for one year. By then, the work of laying 22 thousand volts of cable in the Arabian Sea was completed. About 18 crores of rupees were spent on this.
For the first time in the country
– Dinesh Chandra Sabu, director of the project, explains, “the land near the coast was swampy. Whenever a man went there, he would get trapped in the bog down. If the pits were used to insert the cables then it was immediately filled. Select a big way to lay the cables, because ONGC and JNPT big ships come on the small path. The weight of the ship was also a danger of cable damage. Japan’s Plow Technique has been used for the first time in the country for cabling in the sea.
Floaters were stolen
– The ships coming from this route were given two times the flothers on the 25-25 meter distance for the signal. This shows the ship that it is protected, but it has both been stolen.
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