Vikaramaditya & Sarthak Kanjilal

Port Blair, June 02: A letter written by Mr. Vineet Sharma, PGM (SP), BSNL to the Administrator of Universal Service Obligation Fund, is doing rounds in social media, which claims that if the services of Chennai Andaman and Nicobar Island OFC service is started early, then the BSNL will have to pay several crores of huge amount, extra.

The letter has now raised many questions and people of Andaman Nicobar Island are curious to know whether this is the reason why BSNL is delaying in providing high speed internet through OFC services of Chennai Andaman and Nicobar Islands, OFC cable to people of Andaman Nicobar Islands.

Amidst claims that a lot of selected people have been provided high speed internet through CANI OFC, Andaman Sheekha Contacted the Chief General Manager of BSNL Andaman Nicobar Island to know the ground realities but the CGM was no willing to give proper answer to the questions.

The Chief General Manager BSNL said that there is no delay at all as the original date for the start of CANI project is 01 July 2020.

When the previous statement of the CGM of facilitating the islanders after 02-03 weeks of the lockdown and waiting for a green signal from DoT was reminded, it jogged his memory following which he immediately said the reason behind the delay in giving the green signal should be asked to the DoT itself by media. “What’s going on in the mind of the DoT, I am not aware of it,” said the CGM.

However, the CGM avoided the original questions about the letter and the truth behind the letter, which is being circulated in social media.