Telegram services to be shut down from July 15
daakiya daak laaya - (4)
daak laaya - (2)
khushee kaa payaam kahee dardanaak laaya
daakiya daak laaya...
THE daakiya thankfully remains but his services are nowadays restricted to delivering the odd letter sent by government departments, dividend warrants, the insurance premium intimation, small time magazines, and the odd parcel or telegram, in villages that is.
BBM, Smart phones, emails, MMS and SMS are in vogue these days.
To survive, Post-offices had to undergo a transition. And they did it by selling gold coins, insurance policies, water purifiers and even Assam tea.
As for telegrams (the new generation may ask, what is a telegram?) they seem to have dropped out of the communication race long ago but were being continued for posterity or otherwise.
It is reported that the humble telegram service has got the axe with the BSNL deciding to discontinue the 160-year-old telegraph service from July 15. Once upon a time, the main source of quick and urgent communication was the telegram and this service had delivered innumerable happy and sad news to people all over the country as rightly mentioned in the lyrics of the Hindi song from the 1977 film Palkon ki chaaon mein.
It seems that BSNL had asked the government to support the service as it was not commercially viable and the Government said the BSNL board should decide on it.
And so, the BSNL has decided to discontinue the 160 year-old Telegraph Service.
Is it so easy a decision to take?
By the way, let us all send the last of the telegrams - we prefer the following Greeting Code 31 - Wish you a happy retired life.