🔥INDIA’S SKYLINES AREN’T BEING BUILT — THEY’RE BEING STRANGLED
Walk through any indian city — Delhi, Lucknow, Jaipur, Kolkata, Chennai, guwahati —
and look up.
You won’t see buildings.
You won’t see the sky.
You won’t see city identity.
You’ll see a diseased nervous system made of tangled electrical cables, loose wires, broken fiber lines, and forgotten infrastructure dangling like death traps.
This isn’t an inconvenience.
This is urban negligence on display, every day, everywhere.
Let’s break down the chaos that india has quietly normalized.
🔥 WHY OVERHEAD WIRES ARE AN URBAN CRISIS
1. These Wires Are Not Just Ugly — They Are Lethal
Every hanging cable is a potential:
fire hazard
electrocution threat
accident waiting to happen
During rain, winds, or even routine repairs, one short circuit can take out an entire street.
Kids walk under this mess.
Shopkeepers sit beneath it.
Drivers graze past it.
Every day is a gamble with electricity.
2. These Wires Destroy the Identity of indian Cities
indian cities have:
no clear skyline
no organized street design
no visual coherence
Thanks to tangled overhead wiring, neighbourhoods look like:
slums hung on poles.
Tourist areas, markets, residential colonies — nothing is spared.
A billion-dollar city can look like a forgotten outpost because of 300 rupees worth of cable chaos.
3. This Is Not a Technical Problem — It’s Administrative Laziness
Countries poorer than india have:
underground cabling
ducting systems
coordinated utilities
periodic audits
enforced standards
India?
We run a country of 1.4 billion people on temporary jugaad that became permanent nightmares.
No ducts.
No planning.
No accountability.
Just add one more wire to the pole and hope it doesn’t kill someone.
4. Private Operators, ISPs, electricity Boards — Everyone Dumps Their Wires Anywhere
There is:
no central authority
no coordination
no mapping of cables
no permission tracking
No removal of dead lines
Old wires stay.
New wires get added.
Nobody removes anything.
It’s literally infrastructure hoarding in the sky.
5. “Smart Cities” Are Built on PowerPoint, Not on Roads
On paper:
Digital India.
Smart utilities.
Modern infrastructure.
Urban transformation.
On the ground:
live wires brushing pedestrians’ heads.
Poles are overloaded with dozens of cables.
Transformers are leaking sparks.
Cables sagging onto rooftops.
india talks about 5G, but can’t hide basic electrical lines.
6. Visual pollution Is Urban pollution Too
Cities are brands.
Skylines are identity.
Even tourists judge cities by how they look — before they understand how they work.
Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, dubai — organized, clean, wired underground.
indian cities?
One giant spider web made of cables and negligence.
7. The Solution Exists. The Will Doesn’t.
Fixing this requires:
underground ducting
planned utility corridors
mandatory removal of outdated wires
citywide mapping
coordination between ISPs, electricity boards & municipalities
penalties for illegal wiring
Countries have done this in months.
India stretches it into decades.
Because the system is built for comfort, not change.
🔥 FINAL VERDICT: INDIA’S CITIES DESERVE BETTER THAN THIS ELECTRICAL JUNGLE
Overhead wires are not “normal.”
They’re not “just how india is.”
They’re a sign of:
weak governance
lazy administration
no urban planning
zero accountability
decades of neglect
If india wants real smart cities — not brochure cities — it starts with cleaning up what’s above our heads.
Until then, indian cities will look and feel like accidents waiting to happen.
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