TRAI has admitted this to be a failure. This is expected from a frigging dumb ass moron who is eating away the taxpayers money like a termite without showing anything positive on their records. One cannot but act helpless, especially when one gets a string of unsolicited messages.
By it’s very definition, these messages are “unwelcome”. No one wants them. No one has ever requested for them. Yet, they stream in with a renewed vigor. I had planned some sort of RTI against them to be petitioned in TRAI. Yet, I am aware of the limitations on my time and the fact that one needs immense amount of patience for such a task. The way out has been by one feisty lady named Nivedita Sharma who has acted against these telecom operators. The cat is out of the bag. It is clear that all these numbers are leaked out in the databases. The fuckers who claim innocence are the ones who are worst culprits.
It isn’t brilliant journalism. Yet, kudos to Outlook (to some extent), that they carried out the lead story on the telemarketing calls. Unsolicited messages is supposed to be 50,000 crore industry (and growing)…by what estimates? it seems to be a simple premise. The more one casts the net wide, there is bound to be bunch of suckers who would fall for the “ravishing offers”. I am surprised that pimps of all hues have not yet started marketing their “massage services” as yet! Again I am surprised that Outlook has not bothered to check for the lucrative advertisement deals which come licking up the industry “executives”. Or the media managers. Or that their subscription is pits and pathetic and only a certain section of demography reads it.
Who knows.
Yet, the picture of Sarna isn’t awe inspiring. The pose set is clearly reflective of the intellectual and moral rot in the system. And these bureaucrats are a representative of such a system.
I am also linking to the Delhi High Court judgement (pdf) which I came across. See if it makes sense for anyone to file a class action suit in the consumer court. I can, but I need time to do it.
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