(a) whether telephone connections have been provided to all the members nominated in the Telephone Advisory Committee in different districts of various states including Uttar Pradesh;
(b) if so, the details thereof; and
(c) if not, the reasons therefor?
THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (DR. SHAKEEL AHMAD)
(a) No Sir, some members nominated in the Telephone Advisory Committee (TAC) have not yet been provided telephone connections.
(b) & (c) In BSNL, as on 28.02.2005, out of 4649 members nominated to the various TACs, only 4374 members have applied for telephone connections. Out of these, telephone connections have been provided to 3932 members with work in progress in another 52 cases. It has not been possible to provide telephone to the remaining 390 members due to the following reasons:-
(i) Technical non-feasibility of the area (23 cases)
(ii) Outstanding dues against some members/spouses etc. (54 cases).
(iii) Telephone connections requested to be installed out of the area of jurisdiction of the Secondary Switching Area (SSA) of a member. (16 cases).
(iv) Other subscriber reasons such as members request not to provide telephone for the time being, installation address not given, request for conversion into TAC category of private telephone not working in the name of TAC member etc. (297 cases).
Telephone connections have been provided to all the nominated TAC members in MTNL, Delhi and Mumbai who have given their consent (Delhi 58 connections and Mumbai 47 connections).
In MTNL Mumbai: -
Telephone connections not provided to TAC members: 17 with the following reasons:-
Welcome letter sent but acceptance of nomination not received from TAC members :14 Nomination on TAC refused :01 TAC connection refused :02