BSNL cuts UP FinMin’s landline for not paying bill
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Bareilly: In a surprising development, thelandline phone services of Uttar Pradesh finance minister Rajesh Agrawal were disconnected by BSNL over non-payment of bill pending since April last year.
As soon as the phone line was disconnected, an undersecretary in UP government deposited the outstanding bill of ₹8,702.
A BSNL official said that the services were disconnected by computerised auto-generated call detail records office in Chandigarh where the server for north India was set up.
According to BSNL officials, the phone number in question was allottedtoAgarwal when hewas an MLA during the previous state assembly.
“Asitis a government number withVIPflag, the bill generated on this number is paid by the undersecretary in UP government. The last bill was paid of around ₹7,000 in March 2017. Since then, no bill was paid and theoutstanding amount had mounted to₹8,702,” a BSNL official said.
The general manager of BSNL Bareilly office, Charan Singh, told TOI that the services had been resumed on the said number soon after the matter came to his knowledge.
“ We have set up an inquiry to probe why the undersecretary concerned had not deposited the outstanding bill,” Singh said.
The GM told TOI that several other numbers of government officials were also disconnected.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Bareilly: In a surprising development, thelandline phone services of Uttar Pradesh finance minister Rajesh Agrawal were disconnected by BSNL over non-payment of bill pending since April last year.
As soon as the phone line was disconnected, an undersecretary in UP government deposited the outstanding bill of ₹8,702.
A BSNL official said that the services were disconnected by computerised auto-generated call detail records office in Chandigarh where the server for north India was set up.
According to BSNL officials, the phone number in question was allottedtoAgarwal when hewas an MLA during the previous state assembly.
“Asitis a government number withVIPflag, the bill generated on this number is paid by the undersecretary in UP government. The last bill was paid of around ₹7,000 in March 2017. Since then, no bill was paid and theoutstanding amount had mounted to₹8,702,” a BSNL official said.
The general manager of BSNL Bareilly office, Charan Singh, told TOI that the services had been resumed on the said number soon after the matter came to his knowledge.
“ We have set up an inquiry to probe why the undersecretary concerned had not deposited the outstanding bill,” Singh said.
The GM told TOI that several other numbers of government officials were also disconnected.
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