BSNL’s poor service irks subscribers

Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 3: The subscribers of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) in Sopore town of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district are irked due to the poor signal in the area for the last one month.
Mohammad Ashraf, President Sopore Traders Union said that the people have been facing immense problems due to poor services provided by the BSNL, especially in Main Market.
Ashraf accused BSNL officials of deliberately putting the people in trouble. He said they have many a times raised the issue with the BSNL authorities, but the BSNL authorities have failed to improve the services as “they don’t care”.
The BSNL subscribers also said that the internet service is worst hit, which has become the reason for their loss in business. “Internet and mobile services has also put a lot of inconveniences to the people,” he said.
“Many a times we have informed our higher ups of BSNL regarding the matter, but they have failed to take any measure in this regard,” he added.
Ashraf also said that the employees of BSNL in Sopore are not producing paper generated bills to its customers. “The BSNL employees say that they have no paper available in the office for generating the bills and even printers are not working.”
BSNL Divisional Engineer, Baramulla, U G Niture said they will look into the problem faced by the subscribers in the area and rectify it as soon as possible.