HT Pole Still Blocks Road Between Sectors 102, 102A

GURUGRAM: A high-tension electricity pole standing in the middle of the road that divides Sectors 102 and 102A has narrowed a three-lane carriageway to two lanes and remains a hazard for motorists more than two years after residents began complaining, locals said. HVPNL says the shifting work is now in the tendering process and is likely to be completed before winter.

Residents said they have repeatedly approached the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority, Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam and Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam, yet the pole is still on the carriageway. Motorists unfamiliar with the stretch often swerve or change lanes abruptly to avoid it. The risk rises in fog, when the pole is harder to spot from a distance.

Alka Malhotra, a resident of Adani Oyster in Sector 102A, said the pole puts commuters at risk of accidents and urged authorities to remove it without further delay before winter visibility worsens. Parag Anand, a resident of Joyville in Sector 102, said several accidents had been reported at the spot over two years and questioned why shifting had not been completed despite those complaints.

Two-year wait and HVPNL's tender reply

The stretch feeds traffic heading toward the Dwarka Expressway, so even a short bottleneck can stack cars at peak hours. Residents say the pole sits inside the running carriageway rather than on a verge, which leaves drivers with little margin when a bus or truck occupies the adjoining lane.

An HVPNL official said the process of shifting the high-tension pole has been initiated. The shifting of the high-tension pole is in the tendering process. The work is likely to be completed before the onset of winter, the official said. No tender number or exact completion date was shared in the briefing.

Responsibility for such poles often sits across agencies: transmission utility for the structure, distribution utility for related lines, and the road or metropolitan authority for the carriageway clearances. Residents argue that the multi-agency chain has become an excuse for delay rather than a coordination plan with a single owner.

With fog season approaching, the practical ask from Sector 102 and 102A is simple: move the pole off the asphalt before low visibility turns a known obstacle into a crash point. Until the tender converts into site work, drivers on that divider road will keep treating the pole as a fixed hazard in the middle of the lane.

GMDA and DHBVN have also been named in resident complaints about the same pole, so a clean handover between transmission, distribution and the road agency will decide whether the winter deadline is realistic. Drivers using the Sector 102 divider toward the Dwarka Expressway should treat the pole as a fixed mid-lane hazard until the tender turns into actual shifting work.