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Telecom services disrupted

By Our Staff Reporter

MADURAI, MARCH 22. Telecom services in the southern districts were disrupted for nearly three hours this evening after the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited officers "intensified" their `work-to-rule' agitation.

Subscribers could not get international and national calls through BSNL land phones. Similarly, the `95' service was also affected. No calls could be made from the landline to mobile phones - services offered by both the BSNL and private operators.

However, making local landline to landline calls and calls among the mobile phone services were possible, though there was heavy traffic congestion.

But the services gradually resumed late in the evening. The United Forum of BSNL Executives have been adopting work-to-rule and "non-cooperation" since March 15, when it began a three-day relay hunger strike to press time-bound promotion for officers.

The BSNL had agreed in principle to give promotion when it absorbed them from the Department of Telecommunication, while forming the BSNL, the president of Madurai Telecom District All-India BSNL Executives Association, P. Gandhi Arumugam, told The Hindu .

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