Congress leader Kadfeen Choudhary has said that the constant shutdown of high-speed mobile internet in Jammu and Kashmir is taking a heavy toll upon region’s students, businesses and aspirants working hard to crack various competitive exams.
Kadfeen termed the gag as the biggest impediment in their learning process, leaving them at the mercy of a dreadful situation.
He said that the 4G mobile internet continues to remain blocked since August 5 last year and now when eight months have passed since the imposition of the internet gag, and people have been locked down in their homes due to COVID 19 threat, the situation is turning extremely worrisome.
He said that there are thousands of aspirants appearing in civil services like IAS or IPS whose primary source information like current affairs and online journals come to them via the internet only and with 4G snapped in entirety, these ill- fated students term the current situation most trying and troublesome.
“They cannot watch the online videos of experts of various fields who upload their weekly lessons on social networking sites like YouTube and Facebook. These students are further disgruntled over how access to the online journals and newspapers that constitute a vital aspect of civil services, has been sadistically denied to them. Not all can have the luxury of the high speed internet at home.
We primarily rely upon the mobile internet. It is a sorry state of affairs that Jammu and Kashmir that has been absolutely peaceful even when there were apprehensions of law and order has been exposed to such hardships with its students left in lurch,” said Kadfeen while demanding immediate restoration of high speed internet in JK.
