Call drop situation is improving: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Patna: Under attack from the Opposition on the call drop problem, Union Communications and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the situation was improving."There is a problem about call drops, but the situation is improving," he told reporters here. "All the telecom operators have been told to take steps to improve quality of services," Prasad said, adding that the  telecommunications department had reviewed the situation   on weekly basis for the past two months to reduce call drops.              

He said that all the operators had been asked to find out ways to improve the telephony service in the country and   DoT Secretary Rakesh Garg had spoken to the owners/operators of the service providers at the highest level.Identifying shortage of towers as the main problem for call drops, Prasad said that a policy decision had been taken under which all buildings of Government of India must allow  installation of towers, while the post offices too had been directed to allow towers on rent at its buildings throughout the country.              

He said that he had also written letters to the chief  ministers of states for installations of towers at the  government buildings and noted that Kerala and Andhra Pradesh  among states had done so, but regretted that Bihar Chief  Minister Nitish Kumar was yet to respond to the missive.