I was, the other day, discussing with a KSEB friend of mine about tree planting here in Kerala.
Come South West monsoon (ida-va-paathi), the electricity dept people of Kerala run helter shelter attending to power snaps. Atleast some of the times, the culprits are the trees...some windthrown as such, some had broken branches...all falling upon supply lines and interrupting power. Poor elec dept people...now this rainy season they have another enemy in the form of FIFA World Cup. Power has to be restored at any cost! Rain and football has combined to give elec dept people sleepless nights!
Though I had strongly (in one of my earlier post) criticised elec dept's callous way of pruning of trees, they have a point. Tree planting activities, including those taken up by forest dept and others show little attention for the overhead power lines. So in a matter of months, it is the turn of elec dept people to come and weild the axe and chop off indiscriminately (My friend confessed that they do kill the sapling/tree so that they can sleep peacefully!).
So, before you plant, please look up towards the heavens and make sure that no power lines are dangling overhead.
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