BSNL Jharkhand, you suck!

Another boring morning at home, thanks to BSNL Jharkhand. The internet connection, which the BSNL claims is a broadband connection and has a speed of 2 MBPS, is so horrible that it takes around 15 minutes to login to my Facebook account. Our phone line has been dead for over a week. The BSNL phone at my Grandfather's office has been dead too. We file complaints, they would fix the phone after 1 week, then after 2 weeks it would again go dead. This has been happening since the past 2 years. Our phone goes dead at least once every month, and gets fixed. The BSNL office is very well aware of the problems in this area, still they won't find a permanent solution. I have written to the BSNL head office too, but never got any reply. Nor did I expect any, but I decided to write anyway just to be sure that they have not improved.

In other news. Air India pilots are on a strike since 4 days. I think half the people in India who are on government jobs get their salaries for nothing. BSNL has a crappy service. Air India staff goes on a strike every two weeks or so. The police is anyways corrupt. Nobody knows what NTPC does. IOCL is just there to be manipulated by the government to win elections. I used to oppose the idea that India should become a free market like USA, but now, I think it is better to lose some control over things you can't handle. Most of the government offices are over-employed. Where a private company would do away with just 1 employee, the government hires 10. So the government is literally giving out salaries for free. The employees, used to getting spoon-fed, would go on a strike whenever they need anything. Need a raise, strike. A co-worker got fired, strike. Boss scolded us, strike. We don't have an AC in the office, strike. This has become such a common thing in government offices that it is too difficult to end this. Unless these companies go into private hands, and they get a CEO who is free to take decisions, nothing can be done.