POOR BSNL NETWORK HITS COMMUNICATION IN B’GIR
Monday, 18 November 2013
| PNS | BALANGIR | in Bhubaneswar
Even as
the BSNL is making tall claims of providing uninterrupted connectivity to its
customers across the country, frequent disruption during communication,
particularly during the evening hours, in the rural hinterlands owing to poor
signals deprives the consumers from getting connected to their desired
destination in time of need.
Since
past four years not a single tower has been installed in the Balangir
Parliamentary constituency, which comprises Balangir and Subarnapur
districts. This is the case not only in Balangir but in some other parts of
the State too, thanks to absence of mobile towers and other necessary equipment
in the rural pockets.
Also,
the poor BSNL network in rural areas has provided opportunity to private
cellular operators to enter and capture the rural markets. According unofficial sources, more than 20 per cent of rural area
customers have been covered by private cellular operators in the district.
Sources
said that there was proposal for setting up of 26 BSNL mobile towers in
Balangir Parliamentary constituency, but it is yet to be operational. “Communication and connectivity are two vital parameters to gauge
development in the modern age. Hence, I had written a letter to Union Telecom
Minister Kapil Sibal in this regard. But unfortunately, no step has so far been
taken for installation of required towers in the district in the past four
years,” said Balangir MP Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo. “It is really disgusting,”
he added.
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