Editor,
The BSNL services have almost come to a standstill in entire Garo Hills. Mobile services have been down for most part of the day and sometimes for days together. The common display on the screen and the recorded voice we hear is ‘person not reachable’, ‘error in connection’, ‘the person is not responding to your call’, ‘the mobile is switched off” – etc. But later, when we enquire from the persons concerned, they say that they did not receive any calls. If you call a person standing in front of you – the usual response would be, ‘the person is not reachable’ or ‘the person’s mobile is switched off”. The landline services are no better.
The BSNL net-work was one of the first to arrive in the State. In course of time it has lost the competition to other private networks. It is surprising that though many private net works have came to Garo Hills much later, rather very recently, but the quality of their services are for better than that of BSNL in all respects. Doubts arise in our minds whether some groups in the establishment are trying to sabotage this public sector undertaking (PSU) from within and conniving with the private network so that people switch over to private networks. Everything is possible, as we are witnessing scams after scams in various departments of the Central Government. The so-called officers should not forget that tax-payers are paying their salaries and perks Insiders say that a conspiracy is on by vested interests to destroy the BSNL services in Meghalaya. The same source disclosed that many efficient and able officers who do not toe the line of the vested interests are being transferred and they are replaced by inefficient people.
If this is true then there is need for a CBI enquiry to get at the truth.
Yours etc.,
Prof UR Dutta
Member, District ‘Consumer’ Grievances Redressal Forum,
West Garo Hills, Tura.
Teachers’ plight?
Editor,
I have always had a soft corner for teachers and supported their strikes etc. But when I saw in the newspapers that the teachers in deficit colleges are drawing Rs 90,000- 95,000 per month as per the revised UGC scale of pay I was totally shocked. Now I wonder whether it is correct to say that the Government of Meghalaya neglects the teachers?
Yours, etc
N. Hazarika
Guwahati-8