BY: Rakshanda Bhat
Srinagar, Mar 24: The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Tuesday said its response to the demand for restoration of high speed internet services in Jammu and Kashmir is much “calibrated” and the internet services in the UT are being upgraded according to the needs.
Talking to Kashmir In-depth News Service (KINS), exclusively over phone from New Delhi, senior security advisor in the MHA on J&K affairs K Vijay Kumar said, “ Our response to the issue (restoration of 4-G services) is steadily calibrated. Internet services are being upgraded according to the needs.”
“They (Govt in J&K UT) have to look at various parameters like society, environment, situation to lower down restrictions,” he said, adding that the J&K UT government is taking certain steps for lifting curbs like releasing detainees.
The high speed internet services were snapped across J&K prior to the Centre’s announcement on August 5 last year in the wake of scrapping of J&Ks’ special status and slicing of erstwhile state into two UTs—J&K and Ladakh.
Of late, at a time when J&K is under tight grip of fear triggered by the pandemic COVID-19 the demand for restoration of 4-G services has gone shriller with even top officials from the government demanding it as a means to know various methods being adopted by the global community to fight the Coronavirus. (KINS).
