Source: The Sangai Express / Newmai News Network
Imphal, December 19:
Cell phone service provided by the BSNL at Tamei area has conked out for quite sometime now but concern authorities continue to display their indifferent attitude on the matter inspite of the repeated highlightings in the media.
The people of Tamei sub-division were overjoyed when the BSNL mobile phone connection became operational some eleven months back but the celebration was short-lived.
Regular interruptions have been the state of affairs of the only communication facility that became functional in the month of January this year.
Irked by this deplorable manner of the BSNL service, the poi-holloi of Tamei public along with the frontal social organisations are contemplating to resort to some drastic forms of expressing their anguish over the case.
Social worker K Dilinbou of Tamei Hqs felt that, if at all there exist a government, priority attention should be given to such problem.
The social worker said that after the introduction of BSNL mobile phone service in the area like Tamei, the convenience enjoyed by the general public was commendable.
However, the lethargic attitude of the concern authorities/Departments in maintaining the affairs in this regard has been the main cause for the grim functioning of the service.
Tamei is a subdivision under Tamenglong district where fixed phone or land-line phone connection facility is not available even in this 21st century where globalisation is a house-hold word elsewhere.
The poor transport system coupled with pathetic health-care facilities, the people of Tamei area, have been, somehow finding solace in the BSNL mobile phone facility of late but only to find themselves back to square one, thanks to the State Government.
K Dilinbou earnestly appealsed to the Government to do something in restoring the functioning of mobile phone service that has been down for months now.