Journalists of news agencies, national and local newspapers, besides television news channels on Monday staged a demonstration to protest against the breakdown of telecom services in the state due to the ongoing countrywide telecom employees strike. The journalists, under the banner of the Guwahati Press Club, shouted slogans in front of the office of the chief general manager of Assam Telecom Circle demanding immediate restoration of news agencies wire service circuits, STD facilities and internet services which had been lying paralysed for the last one week. Senior journalists speaking on the occasion said that they had been hampered by the ongoing strike and lack of telecom services has resulted breakdown in smooth dissemination of information. They also said that the public was being deprived of their right to information. The journalists were also joined by the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee President Tarun Gogoi and All Assam Students Union activists.

Bureau Report