Comments for My Memoir

Comment on Climate change – India’s role to play !! by Gautham

Gautham — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:15:00 +0000

The problem is Climate change cannot be concretely proved and world leaders will not take action unless and until the proof is thrust into their face, by the time of which it will rather be too late

Comment on Climate change – India’s role to play !! by Ashok

Ashok — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:26:19 +0000

This methane emissions from farmers very low , US made a big news out of it .

Comment on Climate change – India’s role to play !! by krithikasubramanian

krithikasubramanian — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:17:27 +0000

Very true. The per-capita emission now also takes methane emission from paddy fields of poor farmers as well.. That may not be a good measure..

Comment on Climate change – India’s role to play !! by Ashok

Ashok — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:15:45 +0000

The irony of climate change is its the rich in most nations who contribute majorly but the poor who gets affected . Rather than the overall per-capita consumption we need to measure the per capita consumption of people earning 4.5 lakh / per year in India .

Comment on why should the Indian government be running telephone and internet services ?? by Balachandran S

Balachandran S — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:56:04 +0000

Hi,
A few things. BSNL is run, not with profit in mind but with connectivity. For eg. There are parts of India where BSNL is the only service provider. The reason being, none of the private operators provide services in areas that are not profitable for business. So, govt. has to run that organisation, profitable or not.For the same reasons, you can ask why should govt run anything at all. BTW, BSNL is not actually run by govt. any more. It is just like BHEL, BEL,HAL etc.It is a PSU since 2000.

For the question “Is everybody out there not working ?”, you would not have asked it if someone whom you know very well works for BSNL. People are in fact toiling hard to achieve zero-downtime goal.

Till now my experiences with BSNL Bangalore has been quite good except for one instance. I got my landline in 10 days and my broadband in 2-3 days after that. My phone has never went down and my Internet is also working quite well(it failed once for 4 days in the past 1 yr) . And in TN, we have had a phone connection for so many years and it has never gone down even once and never had to complain even once.(except during floods of course).

As to “performance based compensation and benefits”, that will never happen in the near future, for reasons that you know quite well

Comment on why should the Indian government be running telephone and internet services ?? by Senthil Kumaran S

Senthil Kumaran S — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:46:33 +0000

FWIW, I used Airtel with great customer service (close to an year) in Bangalore, but in Chennai I do not hear good about Airtel broadband!

Comment on why should the Indian government be running telephone and internet services ?? by krithikasubramanian

krithikasubramanian — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:40:33 +0000

Yeah, I heard that BSNL chennai is very good. But I dont know why its exactly the opposite here. It has been 20 days, but nobody is yet to look into my complaint. Same with so many BSNL customers here, as far as I heard.

Comment on why should the Indian government be running telephone and internet services ?? by Senthil Kumaran S

Senthil Kumaran S — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:13:28 +0000

Myself settled with a BSNL connection in Chennai and happy for the past 2.5 years Even I had moved from Velachery to Valasarawakkam with ease and downtime of hardly 3 to 4 days! Of course in Valasarawakkam I have this connection for more than a year now and didn’t had downtime yet (you know I run my connection with 2 computers almost 24×7). BSNL Chennai rocks

Comment on why should the Indian government be running telephone and internet services ?? by Geethapriya

Geethapriya — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:27:28 +0000

Myself too applied for BSNL broadband last week.I got the landline on the very next day and my broadband got enabled with in a week.BSNL customer care at chennai is good I know that you know this. Just added some more fuel

Comment on why should the Indian government be running telephone and internet services ?? by Preethi J

Preethi J — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:20:10 +0000

“I dont know if BSNL runs under loss…” Yes, it does.
http://www.medianama.com/2009/07/223-bsnl-fy09-profit-down-30-times-restructuring-plans-3g-tender-wimax/
But did u know that BSNL was founded by the govt to connect entire India, and it has done that. It was meant to be more of a social initiative and it has done a considerable lot in connecting villages & towns with telephones..now, of course they are trying to compete with pvt players like Airtel & Tata Indicom etc & things are going badly. The soln is to privatise it, as you said, but the employees are resisting..u know why..
i remember wanting to blow up 2 offices in bangalore – KEB (now bescom) & BSNL hope you dont have to deal with them again.