Even after six days the problems of Met department Bhopal continues as BSNl fails to repair and resume services at the IMD Bhopal office that witnessed disruption of broad band services on May 10.
Gurudutt Mishra Scientist and In charge of public relations at IMD Bhopal while talking to The Pioneer said, “BSNl officials are telling that that it would take further 2-3 days for the smooth functioning of the services. The last update which could be visible on the IMD website of Bhopal was on May 11. The phone numbers are not working and internet connection has not been resumed.”
Mishra further said that the telecom company has failed to provide the services properly. The officials claim that they have less man power but the service level has to be maintained as the systems have to be updated at Met office and the process is continued round the clock, he added.
He said the officials are not willing to attend calls from IMD office which shows their willingness to address the problem.
DGM telecom and senior officials have been complaint but the snail paced work only took some speed on Wednesday.
Providing details of the earlier sufferings Mishra said that earlier in the year 2016 in the month of July same problem was faced and it took around a week for the services to resume as the technical fault which occurred was not rectified in the lack of man power and detecting the problem at the earliest.
The BSNl is not able to identify the problem due to which it has erupted again causing damage to the cables and inconvenience to the department.
Senior officials of BSNl and CPWD have been informed and complaints have been made with them but the repair work was delayed for around a week, Mishra said.
Officials of Met department were running out of patience as the services were interrupted for around six days and resumed partially on Wednesday.