MESCOM to Install Trippers on 1,600 Meters of Street Lights Under MCC Limits: How Does It Help?

Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner M.P. Mullai Muhilan said that MESCOM has been told to install trippers on 1,600 electric meters of street lights in the jurisdiction of Mangalore City Corporation.

When trippers are installed, the power supply on the electric cables gets disconnected whenever they get snapped due to tree fall or if branches fell on the lines. Thus, lives of people can be saved. The trippers will have to be installed within two days. MESCOM has already installed such trippers on high tension power supply lines. But not on electric lines drawn for street lights.

The decision has been taken after three persons were electrocuted in the district last week, in two separate incidents. Of them, two died in the city after coming in contact with a snapped power supply line falling on the road. The MESCOM and Mangalore City Corporation have been instructed to conduct a joint survey and check electricity leakage on street light poles and take preacutionary measures to prevent such leakages