The digital age has brought closure on over a 160 years of history in India. The last telegram will…
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The digital age has brought closure on over a 160 years of history in India. The last telegram will be dispatched on Monday in the sub continent before the state-owned BSNL communications company shuts down.
Its messages which were always hand delivered announced births and deaths, marriages and war.
Shyam Lal Chhokar, who is the deputy manager of the telegraph services of BSNL, believes it is not just modern communication methods which are to blame for the end of the telegraph in India.
“Had the public been booking telegrams, we wouldn’t have to close as revenues would have increased for BSNL. If we had got gotten revenues, why would it be shut? These days people are using fast track communications like email, SMS and broadband,” he opined.
The service – known locally as the ‘Taar’ – was linked by a network of telegraph offices across the sprawling country.
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