The Metro, which rolled out its commercial services last week over 8.5 km long elevated section, is today vulnerable to its electrical systems tripping after coming in contact with Chinese ‘manjha’ (kite string), which among other harmful chemicals contains metallic substances.
The electric supply to Lucknow Metro has tripped multiple times due to Chinese manjha getting entangled with its overhead supply cables. After a recent such incident, LMRC has filed a police complaint in this regard.
After the last Metro service every night, LMRC engineers undertake an arduous task of checking overhead cables and extricating such manjha for the smooth run of the metro the following day.
While, Chinese manjha stands banned in Lucknow, it nonetheless continues to sell illegally in the kite markets.
Earlier, LMRC had also appealed to the Lucknow residents to desist from flying kite near the metro elevated route as it engenders the safety of metro passengers, while also posing threat to the smooth running of the metro services.
The heritage city of Lucknow is famous for kite flying, especially in old residential areas and the sprouting of high rises has quite not dampened the spirits of its aficionados.
Kite flying reaches crescendo during the annual kite flying and competition carnival on ‘jamghat’, which falls on the following day of Diwali festival, the skyline becomes colourful with kites of varied shapes and sizes flying across.
On September 5, union home minister Rajnath Singh and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Aditynath had jointly flagged off the maiden commercial run of Lucknow Metro, which is touted among the fastest completing metro projects in India. Its priority section of 8.5 km reached the commercial operations stage within three years of the start of ground work.
EOM
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