The State Archaeology and Museums department inspected the Hasmathpet megalithic burial site near old Bowenpally on Friday and removed some encroachments.
The protected site covers in an area of 28.27 acres of land and is spotted with cairn circles dating back to 1000 BC. Some of the burials were excavated by the department in 1934. It later erected a shed on one of the excavated burials for the benefit of the scholars and visitors.
When the department tried to construct a compound wall around the protected area in 2003, people staying near it filed a petition in the High Court. The High Court then passed orders to both the parties to maintain status quo.
Over the years, many encroachers made attempts to occupy the peripherals of the protected site by constructing sheds. But on receiving information, the department immediately removed the structures.
On Friday too, officials of the department removed some temporary structures with the assistance of the police. “There are more illegal structures to be removed,” said,” said Mr P. Chenna Reddy of the State Archaeology and Museums Department.
“Several boulders have also been deposited on the protected site. We will take steps to remove the illegal structures within a week with the assistance of revenue and police departments.”
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Trai notice to help Netizens
Internet service providers and telecom operators will now be forced to ensure minimum required broadband speed to their customers because of the latest regulations from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai).
Recently the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) issued guidelines to ensure that internet service providers and telecom operators provide the minimum required broadband speed to their customers.
The regulator has fixed a minimum ‘contention ratio number’ of users who can share the same bandwidth to ensure that customers get better and higher broadband speeds. Earlier, there was no such restriction on operators and they were offering service at a contention ratio of 1:80 to 1:100. Under the new guidelines, the contention ratio for broadband at home has been fixed at 1:50 and for business at 1:30.
With this regulation the customers fear that there will be an increase in the broadband tariffs as operators will have to buy more bandwidth to maintain the new norms which may lead to increase in rates.
“There will be no increase in the tariffs. Its obvious that we need to buy more bandwidth to combat the customer ration but if we provide good speed connectivity automatically it increases our customer ratio, so there’s no query of increasing the tariff” said, V.V. Prasad, Divisional Engineer, BSNL Broadband Services.
In its guidelines, Trai has stated that, “There have been complaints from the subscribers regarding inadequate broadband speed being provided by the internet service provider (ISPs) and majority of the complaints allege that the available broadband speed is lower than the subscribed speed. Following complaints from subscribers TRAI has issued guidelines for better Internet or broadband services.
We have not yet started implementation of the new guidelines from TRAI. It is a time taking process most probably by next month we may start, but one thing is for sure as of now we are not going to change the tariff rates” said, official from Airtel Broadband Service.
Recently the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) issued guidelines to ensure that internet service providers and telecom operators provide the minimum required broadband speed to their customers.
The regulator has fixed a minimum ‘contention ratio number’ of users who can share the same bandwidth to ensure that customers get better and higher broadband speeds. Earlier, there was no such restriction on operators and they were offering service at a contention ratio of 1:80 to 1:100. Under the new guidelines, the contention ratio for broadband at home has been fixed at 1:50 and for business at 1:30.
With this regulation the customers fear that there will be an increase in the broadband tariffs as operators will have to buy more bandwidth to maintain the new norms which may lead to increase in rates.
“There will be no increase in the tariffs. Its obvious that we need to buy more bandwidth to combat the customer ration but if we provide good speed connectivity automatically it increases our customer ratio, so there’s no query of increasing the tariff” said, V.V. Prasad, Divisional Engineer, BSNL Broadband Services.
In its guidelines, Trai has stated that, “There have been complaints from the subscribers regarding inadequate broadband speed being provided by the internet service provider (ISPs) and majority of the complaints allege that the available broadband speed is lower than the subscribed speed. Following complaints from subscribers TRAI has issued guidelines for better Internet or broadband services.
We have not yet started implementation of the new guidelines from TRAI. It is a time taking process most probably by next month we may start, but one thing is for sure as of now we are not going to change the tariff rates” said, official from Airtel Broadband Service.
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