बिहार के इस गांव में आज भी बजती है 'लैंडलाइन फोन की घंटी', क्यों 80 के दशक में जी रहे लोग?

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बिहार का ऐसा गांव जहां के लोग रिश्तेदारों से बात करने के लिए मोबाइल नहीं बल्कि लैंडलाइन का इस्तेमाल करते हैं. पढ़ें खास रिपोर्ट.

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00:00Bihar's Khandelgaon, where in the era of smart mobile, landline phone is connected to lifeline.

00:06In this village, there are not just one or two, but dozens of houses where landline phone is available.

00:14Although, from the BSNL department, landline service has been provided through broadband fiber.

00:23But the speciality of this village is that even today, people keep their old landline phones and talk to their relatives.

00:38Hello.

00:40Brother.

00:43What are you doing?

00:45Everything is fine.

00:46My uncle lives outside and I don't have a mobile phone at home.

00:50My grandfather has a mobile phone.

00:52I talk to this mobile phone.

00:53Do you talk to this mobile phone at home?

00:54Yes.

00:55How long have you been talking to this mobile phone?

00:57For many days.

00:58Where does your uncle live?

01:00Delhi.

01:02So, you don't get a mobile phone at home?

01:04No.

01:05For many days.

01:07Do you talk to this mobile phone?

01:08Yes.

01:09Hello.

01:12Walaikum Assalam.

01:13Walaikum Assalam.

01:15How are you brother?

01:17Everything is fine.

01:19I am enjoying your prayers.

01:22We think that the first mobile phone was installed here in 1988 or 1989.

01:27We had an exchange at home.

01:31And since then, people have kept landline phones here until mobile services started.

01:39So, it was a reliability.

01:43And since more people live abroad,

01:47we think that there were about 20 to 25 mobile phone connections in our village at that time.

01:55I am talking about 1988-1989.

01:58And even today, there are still connections in about 10 houses.

02:03But now there is a broadband system.

02:06Internet plus landline.

02:09So, our landline is also working.

02:11And we try to talk to it more.

02:13Is there an IHD call?

02:16Yes, it is on taking services.

02:18But mostly people prefer incoming calls here.

02:22And such IHD calls are also made.

02:25So, how many people come out of this village?

02:29Let me tell you that there is a population of about 400 houses.

02:34There are about 200 to 250 boys outside.

02:38In the Gulf countries.

02:40So, how many people are there in the panchayat?

02:46If we look at the panchayat, we think that there are more than 200 connections.

02:51And the panchayat means that there are 13 villages in our panchayat.

02:57And everyone has a demand.

02:59Until now, BSNL has not been able to deliver the cable.

03:03There are many issues of poles and such.

03:06But now people are getting back on BSNL.

03:11So, now there is a little broadband system.

03:14So, they have internet and landline.

03:16Both are facilities.

03:18In the beginning, the minimum was call charges.

03:23Outgoing call charges.

03:25Now it is that we have taken a plan.

03:29700 something.

03:31It comes to about 720 rupees.

03:34And there is voice calling free in it.

03:37No matter how much you call and receive, there is no charge for it.

03:41There must be some people from the family who live outside.

03:43They don't have a mobile phone at home.

03:45They don't have a family to feed them.

03:46Do they come back?

03:47Yes, there is a major issue here.

03:49For example, if there is a breakdown of 4-5 hours.

03:59In that case, it is very difficult to get a mobile phone.

04:03There is always a network issue.

04:05But it is reliable that a person can contact anyone in an emergency.

04:15I don't remember accurately, but 25-30 years have passed.

04:17When BSNL first came here, it was Cherki Exchange.

04:21We got it installed at that time.

04:23It was installed at my house at that time.

04:25It was my phone in the whole neighborhood.

04:28So, it has been a long time since the mobile phone was installed.

04:33When it was installed, people used to come.

04:35Yes, there were about 10-15-20 houses in the neighborhood.

04:39They live in the Gulf or live outside.

04:41Whether it is in India or outside India.

04:43They used to call us and we used to talk to them.

04:51Yes, we had an old connection.

04:53So, we got the connection back on.

04:55And we are using the Wi-Fi or landline.

05:01It is okay that we have a mobile phone.

05:03But the phone is better.

05:05It is good.

05:07We are very worried about mobile phones.

05:09We have caught a new disease because of mobile phones.

05:11So many children are using mobile phones like crazy.

05:15The phone is better than that.

05:17There is not much tension in the phone.

05:19So, people are using it at home.

05:21Yes, it is being used now.

05:23In our house, it was there for 25-30 years.

05:25But now we have changed the house.

05:27So, we have got the connection back.

05:31It is going on a lot.

05:33People are ready to take the connection at any time.

05:37It is convenient.

05:39They are doing a lot for PNT.

05:41The landline is open at any time.

05:45All the people are using BSNL.

05:49What is the reason?

05:51It is convenient.

05:53Who is using ISD?

05:55Yes, they are using it.

05:57It is very old.

05:59How many people are there in the panchayat?

06:01There are 250 people in the panchayat.

06:05It takes a lot of time to get the connection.

06:09How many people are there in this village?

06:11There are around 10-15 people.

06:15Because of the high number of ISD calls,

06:17the exchange office was made in this village.

06:23So that people don't face any problem.

06:25The landline telephone service which started in 1988 is still going on.

06:31The BSNL has changed.

06:35The telephone service has changed.

06:39But it is still going on.

06:41It was the first village in the district

06:43which was providing telephone service to the highest number of people.

06:47Sartaj Ahmed from Gaya, for ETV Bharat.

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