By Sadat Khan, Agence India Press
Jammu: Gesture of antagonism has swept through the State with the central government policy to ban pre-paid mobile connections owing to security concerns. A large section of youth is angry.
While the J&K government has promised to take up the subject with the centre, the Gen-X cohort in the state is infuriated that it has been clubbed with terrorists who misused pre-paid connections.
“Are we Terrorists?” Aziz-Ur-Rehman, a youth, asked in antagonism and irritation. “Are all pre-paid user terrorists?” he said.
Decision to shatter prepaid service has resulted in total puzzlement among subscribers.
“It’s outlandish so that one is to be punished for the reason that somebody anywhere could be misusing the competence. This is inopportune,” said Ashiq Ilahi, a student.
Approximately 3 million pre-paid connections are in the state. Good figures of them are from BSNL and Airtel, and new companies are approaching the state, like Tata Indicom, Idea, and Reliance. They have made titanic investments, and they too are annoyed.
“This is awful step,” representative of a cellular service provider told Agence India Press.
The majority people, particularly youths who have to deal with narrow bag riches and inclinator to pre-paid connections, are very annoyed. “Till now I was acknowledged to boundaries, how greatly to chatter, if I am go here for post-paid connections, that perimeter would be stiff to identify,” Whale talking to Agence India Press Aroosa Dijoo Said.
What astonish the citizens is that the move comes exact after Prime Minister Visit assuring additional opportunities.
Union Home Minister, throughout his trip to valley, had implicit at banning pre-paid connections.
The safety concerns are embedded in the information that the security forces were finding it complicated to mark out the terrorists, who were fleeting on commands to their cadres through cellular phones. Perpetually, police found a number of GSM’s of different companies from the terrorists killed or captured during gun fights.
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president has termed the move as “regrettable” and hunted the prime minister’s interference.
The resolution has also not gone down well among people of the State affianced in the business of promotion pre-paid cellular connections.
“We acquire adequate credentials to ascertain the distinctiveness of the customer ahead of issuing the pre-paid GSM and now since as yesterday morning I have clogged down my shop for panic that aggravated subscribers,” said a GSM dealer in Jammu.
“If this is episode to mobile users, what reasonable message is being conveyed to industrialists and forthcoming investors? That J&K is somewhere packed with terrorists?”