OREANDA-NEWS. While wishing safe Makar Sankranti Festival to its 28 lacs power consumers, Reliance Infrastructure Limited (RInfra), hereby near the high tension overhead power transmission lines.

The company is issuing this cautionary from the safety point of view, as kite flying near overhead power transmission lines may prove dangerous not only to the life and properties but also to the entire power grid, which may plunge the city into dark.

As known to all, every year, the Makar Sankranti festival comes on 14th/15th of January and kite flying is the largely underlined way of celebrations during the festival.

It is therefore, imperative to understand and take note of the vital fact that the special threads, popularly known as 'Manja', generally used for kite flying are good conductor of electricity, especially when the metal powder is used as one of the ingredients for coating it on the normal thread.

The 'Manja' therefore, being a good conductor of power, can transmit very high voltage power of even 220000 Volts; if it touches the overhead live wires or even enters the arching zone.

This may cause not only interruptions in power supply due to short circuiting but also either, severe injuries, fatalities or incidences of major breakdowns of transmission lines resulting even in the grid failure.

RInfra, therefore, advises consumers and kite flyers near the areas of Versova, Oshiwara, eastern parts of Northern Suburbs, viz., Goregaon, Malad, Kandivali and Borivli as well as other areas where the high voltage overhead transmission line network exists, to avoid kite flying near overhead power transmission lines.

Company further appeals to the consumers and citizens in the areas that if they notice or come to know any untoward incidence as a result of the unsafe kite flying near transmission lines, the same may please be reported immediately on Company's Round O'clock Power Help Line 1800 200 3030 so as to enable the Company to initiate further necessary action.

Reliance Infrastructure Ltd (RInfra) is the largest infrastructure company developing projects, through various Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs), in several high growth areas in the Infrastructure sector i.e. Roads, Metro Rail and Cement.

The Company is also the leading utility company having presence across the value chain of power businesses i.e. Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Trading of power.

The SPVs are inter alia developing a metro rail project in Mumbai; eleven road projects with total length of 1,000 kms; and developing two cement plants of capacity of five million tonnes per year each in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.

RInfra along with its wholly owned subsidiary generates over 940 MW of power through its five power stations; distributes power to over 60 lakh consumers in Mumbai and Delhi and is developing five transmission projects including the first Independent Private Transmission projects.

RInfra also provides Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) services for developing power and road projects.