SURKHET: Birendranagar Municipality is implementing a project to lay the power cables and telecom cables underground.

The municipality has introduced the project to make the city free of power supply and telecom lines crisscrossing the town from one pole to the other, giving the place an untidy appearance.

Deputy Mayor Mohan Maya Dhakal said the project would be completed by coming July.

In the first phase, it would be implemented at ward-6 of the municipality. The electric poles would be removed and power supply cables would be installed underground.

Sixty per cent cost of the Rs 40 million project will be borne by the municipality while the remaining cost will be funded by the federal government, said the municipality's information officer, Deepen Subedi.