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Lucknow:
The love for Chinese manjha (kite string) amongst kite lovers in Lucknow has grow to be a serious hurdle for the Uttar Pradesh Metro with over 500 disruptions recorded in three years as a result of banned strings, the transporter mentioned in Lucknow.
The banned Chinese kite strings have traces of metals which damages the overhead electrification (OHE) system of the Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation (UPMRC), inflicting disruption in companies.
“Despite stringent appeals by the corporation to people not to fly kites near the metro corridor, there have been incidents of damaging of overhead wire from the Chinese manjha due to which passenger services of the metro were disrupted,” a senior UPMRC officer mentioned.
On Monday, the overhead electrification line close to the Lucknow University metro station tripped due to Chinese manjha (kite string) round 8:30 pm, and companies had been briefly interrupted, he added.
Services had been restored by diverting the metro to the second line. An FIR has been lodged on the Mahanagar police station, the officer mentioned.
In the previous three years, 508 such instances have been registered in opposition to individuals flying kites utilizing Chinese manjha close to the metro tracks.
Under the Metro Railway Act, 2002, there’s a provision of 10 years’ imprisonment for injury to metro property and that too and not using a warrant, the officer mentioned.
“It is very important to understand that even when the metro trains are not operating on the corridor or the passenger services are stopped (from 10 pm to 6 am), the wires of overhead electrification are charged and electric current is present,” he mentioned.
“Chinese manjha is a conductor of electricity due to the use of metal in it. Some also use copper wires as well as barbed metal wires for kite flying. These methods of kite-flying can cause severe injury to the throats and eyes of passersby and affect the lives of animals and birds,” the official added.
चाइनीज़ और नुकीले धातु के तारों के जरिए हो रही पतंगबाजी से मेट्रो के ओवरहेड वायर को पहुंच रहा नुकसान, यात्री सेवाओं में भी आती है बाधा। चाइनीज़ या तार वाली पतंग कॉरिडोर के नजदीक नहीं उड़ाने की UPMRC की अपील#UPMetro:साकारहोतेसपने#LucknowMetropic.twitter.com/U24xG3VoNL
– Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation (@OfficialUPMetro) December 8, 2020
The OHE line of the metro provides electrical energy to a voltage of 25,000 volts or 25 kV, which may fatally electrocute a kite-flyer.
In November 2015, the Allahabad High Court had banned the sale of Chinese manjha in Uttar Pradesh.
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