[Resolved]  BSNL LANDLINE[protected] — LANDLINE NOT OPERATIVE 1ST JULY

Address:

Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Sir,

our telephone[protected] is not operative since 1st july and was discontinued even before the last date for bill payment ie 7th july.

we asked for disconnecting the broadband and paid the balance bill for Rs 250 as guided at the vasna telephone exchange on 2nd july evening. the telephone has not been made yet operative and the message is our line has been temporarily disconnected, we here this for the past 4 weeks. earlier the message was contacat accounts officer - we promptly paid the needed amount on 2nd july, and met the accounts officer again on 11th july morning.

the accoutns officer feels helpless saying the department has passed instructions for reconnecting the line but there is no response from the pune office. perhaps a technical snag which surprisingly takes more than 3 weeks and there seems to be nobody to ensure it is rectified in time on a priority basis. the customer complain lines are not operative and ask us to press the same buttons again and again, so much of automation!!! human interaction not allowed. the complain registered on 1500 by some Dashratbhai is not traceable, no response. we are made to run from pillar to post some secretary receiving the phone but not getting back to us not caring to ask for the mobile number from where the complain was made. the contact numbers are no more available on the BSNL bills as i was told people disturb the BSNL staff late evenings and at night - best solution dont print the numbers!!! then where does one contact presuming it is day time? does BSNL expect one to take office leave and visit the BSNL exchange personally again and again to make indian citizens inclusive as the PM keeps on repeating, those above the BPL line are not inclusive because they possess dead landlines and there is no where to go as one does not know which officer is accountable.

in short our line[protected] is not operative since 1st july inspite of paying the needed money on 2nd july, and it seems BSNL is not able to rectify a technical snag for the past 3 weeks or more which sounds strange for a country on high-tech but unaccountable growth path.

hope this complain of a minor/common citizen will be made note of on this consumer forum in public interest and needful influence would be exerted in consumers interest at large not allowing public services to take customers for granted taking there own sweet time while drawing their salaries regularly, days together not rectifying a routine telephone complaint while remain unaccessible at the same time all 198 telephobe complain lines not responding aksing one to press the same buttons again and again which is irritating and insulting too.

hope one can get appropriate compensation from BSNL for an unduly disconnected landline, and voluntarily too, without any consumer litigation involved treating this as part of the citizens charter - without the involvement of Anna Hazare or Baba Ramdev who seem to be fooled by the govt followed by threatening arrests to scuttle public movements, invoking some technicalities in their disfavour.

ARaja/Kapil Sibal need to be however congratulated for achieving teledensity in the country through Bharat Sanchar Nigam, while the consumer is lost in this density when the services are disconnected for weeks together with nobody to go to hopping from pillar to post while the complaint numbers are not printed any more on the telephone bills.

with all due regards and thanks in all anticipation - if could request kindly acknowledge!!!


k sharada shantaram,[protected]
[protected]@yahoo.co.uk