Overhead electrical and telecommunications cables on 200 streets in Hanoi will be dismantled and buried underground this year.

Theplan to dismantle and bury the cables has been carried out since 2014by the municipal Construction Department, EVN Hanoi and the UrbanLighting and Equipment Company.

So far, the city has dismantled688,000m of cables on 95 main streets. The company has also put up 52new pylons to replace old ones.

However, the work has been slow because of a lack of cooperation between enterprises and authorities.

According to the Urban Lighting and Equipment Company, 27 businesses currently hang their cables in the streets.

Many of them have not registered their cables, which made it difficult to classify them.

Telecomservices provider Viettel explained that the company had a huge numbersof clients scattered across the city, but did not have enough staff tocomplete the work.

Turning down the company's excuse, Directorof the municipal Construction Department Le Van Duc said the businesseswere responsible for the work.

Bigger businesses with more clients and profits should act more responsibly, he said.

Plansfor the project are also another reason for the delay, so theConstruction Department has threatened to cut off unregistered cables.

Thedepartment will closely monitor the work and ask related units tocooperate in order to complete the work by the end of this year.

Overheadcables have been a cause for public concern over the years. The tangledcables make the city ugly and pose a danger for road users.-VNA