I am not politically inclined and definitely not to any of the Dravidian parties. I have admired few current day politicians - the foremost of them being Chandrababu Naidu - I have admired his grit and his vision . Vajpayee for his diplomacy - being able to earn good will universally is no easy job. Few more but I am not going into that ..
Dayanidhi Maran (or DM as I would like to refer) has never been on my fav list. I liked his proactiveness and dignified looks but never exactly admired him. But when he is finally quittin his job , I cant stop feelin a small remorse buildin in me. I will miss his cherubic smile appearing all over in the media(a bit too frequent ;-)) . He has been instrumental today in rapid growth of telephony in our country. His strides have been remarkable and the host of telecom companies we have near Chennai owe something to him.....
I am not discussing whether he has been partisan and regionalistic , whether he has flexed rules for his own network , but the fact remains that to an extent Dhiurbai's dream of every person having a phone has been nearly accomplished partly due to him.... the fact remains that the dialup rates of 24rs an hour are today down to 16 rs at peak hr and 8 rs at non peak hours and broadband which used to cost 1000 bucks for 256 kbps has come down to 250 bucks for 2MBPS, the fact remains that roaming rates have been slashed at 5 plus bucks to 2 plus , the fact remains that std rates have been slashed , ok the fact remains that both BSNL and private players and the market has a big hand in all this growth , but yeah also the fact remains that he has capitalised on the growing markets ....
Adieu DM !!
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Surely DM gonna be missed by telecom industry. But as stated in Deccan Herald, "Having an open-minded PM like Manmohan and Indian Telecom's rapid Growth, the telecom sector should grow in the same way as it's now. Raja should do well as DM". But DM was visionary and cut-down of the roaming and STD costs attributes his work. Even he had plans to completely cut-down Roaming charges to felicitate Karunanithi's 50th year in Politics on his birthday during June. Not too sure will that be in place as said.
For a change we had a learned fellow in the ministry. now he is gone. I felt bad for i tot the growth would take a blow. But i heard some stories of him trying to grow "By hook or by crook". All he wanted was his growth, which has been blatantly revealed by the party.
Some consider him to be lucky just like our ganguly. Things fell in place when he was in the seat. simple as that.
Still, things happened. and that is all that matters.
Shyam,
DM was one guy who did bring VISIBLE changes to the Telecom,
yeah i am still thankful,i get 2MBPs ith 1Gb download for mere .25K bucks.
One India scheme was also fantastic
-btw me adding u to my blog roll list
i am sorry i cant do the same ! as I ws tellin b4 for some reason all the links appear in finnish for me and i cant make out much ... i barely recognise much to post !!!i cant make out how to edit my page layout :-(
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