BackBharti Airtel resumes postpaid mobile services in J&K, waives of one-time rental
The Centre had ended J&K’s special status on August 5Mobile services were suspended in August
PremiumNew Delhi: Bharti Airtel today said it had resumed postpaid mobile services in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) on the orders of the authorities. The service provider has waived off rental charges for the period the services were suspended.
"Mobile phone connections, to be specific, all postpaid mobile phone connections, irrespective of service provider, will resume from Monday - October 14th at noon. This will happen across the state, in all 10 districts of Kashmir," J&K Principal Secretary Rohit Kansal had said at a news briefing Monday.
The Centre had ended J&K’s special status on August 5 and split it into two union territories (UT) of J&K and Ladakh, saying the move would help ensure that people of the state get the same constitutional benefits as the rest of the country and spur development.
J&K is now a UT with a Delhi-like legislative assembly. Ladakh has no legislative assembly, much like Chandigarh.
Mobile services were suspended in August the wake of the dilution of Article 370 and Article 35-A that gave the troubled state special status under the Indian constitution.
Curbs on movement of people and security restrictions have been in place ever since the special status was withdrawn. Politicians belonging to rival parties were either locked up in jail or put under house arrest to prevent any untoward incident.
Some of the curbs are now being relaxed. An advisory preventing tourists from visiting the state was lifted on Thursday.
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