Communications links to eastern states remained cut off from the rest of the country for the third day, on Wednesday, while the lines to southern and western states, which have been disrupted due to a 'work to rule' agitation by engineers and officers, have been restored.
Normalcy in services has been restored to Chennai and Mumbai with rest of the country, while telephone lines to Calcutta and eastern states are cut off as a fibre optic link at Berhampur was washed away by rain, Shyamal Ghosh, secretaty of department of telecom, told reporters.
With the 4000-odd officers and 20,000 engineers sticking to their stand, communications minister Ram Vilas Paswan summoned a special high-level meeting to review the steps taken to restore telecom services.
Speaking to reporters after the meeting Paswan said Chief General Managers (CGM) of all affected circles have been asked to fix responsibility for the faults and submit reports by Wednesday evening.
A meeting of the CGMs, which has been convened for a different purpose tomorrow, would also discuss the issue of disruption of services by a select group of people, he said. Paswan said strict action would be taken against the employees who are responsible for the dislocation of services in the last few days.
Bureau Report
