Question : REDUCTION IN PULSE RATE



(a) whether due to increase in telephone rent and decrease in the number of local free calls the telephone subscribers in urban and rural areas have got their telephones disconnected;

(b) if so, the details thereof; and

(c) the steps taken by the Government to reduce the pule rate again?

Answer given by the minister


THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS (SHRI TAPAN SIKDAR)

(a) No case of telephone surrender has been reported due to these reasons.

(b) Does not arise in view of (a) above.

(c) There is no such proposal at present.