HL phone line gone in drain cleaning
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, March 14 2013:
The underground telephone cable line at Hodam Leirak Machin along Tiddim road, which had been accidentally cut off on March 13 during an exercise of cleaning up the clogged drain on March 13, remained unattended by BSNL officials even after repeated requests for repairing.
With the repeated requests left unattended, the telephone lines of many individual subscribers and offices including that of Hueiyen Lanpao remained non-functional ever since.
When the local people as well as the staff of Hueiyen Lanpao contacted for necessary repairing, officials of BSNL maintained that they are presently occupied with even more important works than repairing snapped telephone lines.
The officials have also stated that the repairing work would take a pretty long time since it is not confined to a single line but a whole lot of telephone lines.
The affected telephone subscribers have appealed to all concerned to be more careful while carrying out cleaning works of drains in future in consideration of the underground telephone cables buried underneath.
It may be noted here that anyone can be arrested by the police and given befitting punishment for damaging telephone lines.