1 Mar 2009 PTI
FAIZABAD: BSNL has shut down all its cell phone towers along the India-Nepal border in view of security concerns, officials said here.
The country's largest public sector cellular service provider switched off more than a dozen of its BTS towers in the stretch of about 500-km along Nepal on Saturday, disrupting mobile services in the region.
The step is being attributed to increasing activities of ISI, smuggling of arms and counterfeit currency and drugs from across the border.
"All the BTS towers of BSNL mobile established in all Nepal bordering districts including Basti, Balrampur, Bahraich, Gorakhpur, Shrawasti, Siddharthnagar and Maharajganj have been jammed," a top official of telecommunication ministry said on condition of anonymity.
"By taking this step we have tried to chop off a helping hand of those involved in anti-India activities on Indo-Nepal border," the official added.
BSNL general manager of Basti range SM Aale Raza said that all BTS installed at Barhni and other points at Indo-Nepal border have been removed.
Raza said that the department has taken the step as under the rules it is authorised only to provide signals in Indian territory while the BTS which have been removed were providing full signal in the vast areas of Nepal.
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