The PDB is supposed to provide electricity connections within a radius of 33 metres from an electricity pole, but this rule is being flouted in different places here. Electricity connection in the district are being given within a radius of  500–1,000 metres from the main pole. These illegal connections are provided with the help of shaky bamboo poles, which  can break or simply fall even a slight wind blows their way. This may result in a messy state of electric wires on the road and create panic among locals.

Such electricity lines can be seen in Kaola village of Bhogdaburi union under Domar upazila. The main pole is in front of Kamar Para Primary School. But a electricity line more than five kilometres in length has been pulled from this main pole up to Sabdigang with the help of about 100 bamboo poles. Two more electricity lines have been pulled from the same pole by covering a stretch of two kilometres up to Mistripara and Pabna Para respectively.

Izaharul Haque, a local, told this correspondent that these electricity lines were pulled about four to five years ago with the help of the bamboo poles.

Abu Hasan Kamaruzzaman, a resident of Nij-Bhogdaburi village, told The Independent: "My electricity connection was taken four years ago in exchange of Tk. 8,000. PDB employees prepare the electricity bill without reading the meter. If the bamboo poles fall down on the ground due to a strong wind, the transformer would go out of order. In that case, we've to pay hefty sums to PDB  employees, who would start repairing the transformer only after getting the money."

Currently, a non-government company, NESCO Limited, is in charge of Domar PDB electricity distribution and sales-related services.

NESCO executive engineer Md Saiful Islam said there are 165 transformers in Domar and Dimla upazilas of Nilphamari district and Debiganj upazila of Panchagorh district under this office.

 There are 150 metres of long non-standard lines under each of these transformer and accordingly the lines under the office are more than 200 kilometres in length, he added.

The same scenario is present in the Ramganj haat in Tupamari union under Sadar upazila of Nilphamari.

Here electricity lines have been pulled to different places with the help of bamboo poles.  Osman Ali, a resident of Sukhodhan village under Sadar upazila, said a young man recently died after being touched by a live wire from one of the broken bamboo poles.

An engineer of Rangpur electricity distribution, on condition of anonymity, told this correspondent that there are some non-standard lines outside Nlphamari town.