BBMP and Bescom to set up coordination committee for transformers

It will identify locations conducive for installing electricity equipment, including transformers, and review existing ones

A coordination committee would be set up for identification of locations conducive for installing electricity equipment, including transformers, and review existing ones, the High Court of Karantaka was informed on Monday. The heads of both the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Ltd. (Bescom) have filed an affidavit in this regard during the hearing of a PIL petition, filed by G.B. Athri, a retired Wing Commander of the Indian Air Force. Taking the affidavits of Chief Commissioner of the BBMP and the Managing Director of Bescom on record, a division bench comprising Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice Suraj Govindaraj made it clear that the court would consider appointing an agency to identify transformers posing danger to the public in case of any delay in creation of a coordination committee and taking effective steps by the committee.