Power and telecom
BTTB, in an unholy policy, monopolised the high demand line telephone network and deliberately kept supply below demand. Result, the open market mobile cell tel boomed to 2m growth in a couple of years. Now that the fixed line tel sys has been made open to private sector, the newspapers are full of advertisements from new companies to recruit new execs and staff. BTRC has to keep a close watch on this coming boom and be strict with regs for public convenience.
We went gaga on natural gas discoveries and forgot about using huge coal reserves for two decades, haunted by the false Greenhouse theories imposed by the industrialised countries on the DCs. We still do not have gas pipe network in the North, and foreign investment response is poor due to amateurish long term policies. Now Tata is opening our eyes for doing BIG business! Soon the dole queue will be seen as witnessed in the recent mobile tele mela.
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