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00:00Bihar's Khandelgaon, where in the era of smart mobile, landline phone is connected to lifeline.
00:06In this village, there are not just one or two, but dozens of houses where landline phone is available.
00:14Although, from the BSNL department, landline service has been provided through broadband fiber.
00:23But the speciality of this village is that even today, people keep their old landline phones and talk to their relatives.
00:38Hello.
00:40Brother.
00:43What are you doing?
00:45Everything is fine.
00:46My uncle lives outside and I don't have a mobile phone at home.
00:50My grandfather has a mobile phone.
00:52I talk to this mobile phone.
00:53Do you talk to this mobile phone at home?
00:54Yes.
00:55How long have you been talking to this mobile phone?
00:57For many days.
00:58Where does your uncle live?
01:00Delhi.
01:02So, you don't get a mobile phone at home?
01:04No.
01:05For many days.
01:07Do you talk to this mobile phone?
01:08Yes.
01:09Hello.
01:12Walaikum Assalam.
01:13Walaikum Assalam.
01:15How are you brother?
01:17Everything is fine.
01:19I am enjoying your prayers.
01:22We think that the first mobile phone was installed here in 1988 or 1989.
01:27We had an exchange at home.
01:31And since then, people have kept landline phones here until mobile services started.
01:39So, it was a reliability.
01:43And since more people live abroad,
01:47we think that there were about 20 to 25 mobile phone connections in our village at that time.
01:55I am talking about 1988-1989.
01:58And even today, there are still connections in about 10 houses.
02:03But now there is a broadband system.
02:06Internet plus landline.
02:09So, our landline is also working.
02:11And we try to talk to it more.
02:13Is there an IHD call?
02:16Yes, it is on taking services.
02:18But mostly people prefer incoming calls here.
02:22And such IHD calls are also made.
02:25So, how many people come out of this village?
02:29Let me tell you that there is a population of about 400 houses.
02:34There are about 200 to 250 boys outside.
02:38In the Gulf countries.
02:40So, how many people are there in the panchayat?
02:46If we look at the panchayat, we think that there are more than 200 connections.
02:51And the panchayat means that there are 13 villages in our panchayat.
02:57And everyone has a demand.
02:59Until now, BSNL has not been able to deliver the cable.
03:03There are many issues of poles and such.
03:06But now people are getting back on BSNL.
03:11So, now there is a little broadband system.
03:14So, they have internet and landline.
03:16Both are facilities.
03:18In the beginning, the minimum was call charges.
03:23Outgoing call charges.
03:25Now it is that we have taken a plan.
03:29700 something.
03:31It comes to about 720 rupees.
03:34And there is voice calling free in it.
03:37No matter how much you call and receive, there is no charge for it.
03:41There must be some people from the family who live outside.
03:43They don't have a mobile phone at home.
03:45They don't have a family to feed them.
03:46Do they come back?
03:47Yes, there is a major issue here.
03:49For example, if there is a breakdown of 4-5 hours.
03:59In that case, it is very difficult to get a mobile phone.
04:03There is always a network issue.
04:05But it is reliable that a person can contact anyone in an emergency.
04:15I don't remember accurately, but 25-30 years have passed.
04:17When BSNL first came here, it was Cherki Exchange.
04:21We got it installed at that time.
04:23It was installed at my house at that time.
04:25It was my phone in the whole neighborhood.
04:28So, it has been a long time since the mobile phone was installed.
04:33When it was installed, people used to come.
04:35Yes, there were about 10-15-20 houses in the neighborhood.
04:39They live in the Gulf or live outside.
04:41Whether it is in India or outside India.
04:43They used to call us and we used to talk to them.
04:51Yes, we had an old connection.
04:53So, we got the connection back on.
04:55And we are using the Wi-Fi or landline.
05:01It is okay that we have a mobile phone.
05:03But the phone is better.
05:05It is good.
05:07We are very worried about mobile phones.
05:09We have caught a new disease because of mobile phones.
05:11So many children are using mobile phones like crazy.
05:15The phone is better than that.
05:17There is not much tension in the phone.
05:19So, people are using it at home.
05:21Yes, it is being used now.
05:23In our house, it was there for 25-30 years.
05:25But now we have changed the house.
05:27So, we have got the connection back.
05:31It is going on a lot.
05:33People are ready to take the connection at any time.
05:37It is convenient.
05:39They are doing a lot for PNT.
05:41The landline is open at any time.
05:45All the people are using BSNL.
05:49What is the reason?
05:51It is convenient.
05:53Who is using ISD?
05:55Yes, they are using it.
05:57It is very old.
05:59How many people are there in the panchayat?
06:01There are 250 people in the panchayat.
06:05It takes a lot of time to get the connection.
06:09How many people are there in this village?
06:11There are around 10-15 people.
06:15Because of the high number of ISD calls,
06:17the exchange office was made in this village.
06:23So that people don't face any problem.
06:25The landline telephone service which started in 1988 is still going on.
06:31The BSNL has changed.
06:35The telephone service has changed.
06:39But it is still going on.
06:41It was the first village in the district
06:43which was providing telephone service to the highest number of people.
06:47Sartaj Ahmed from Gaya, for ETV Bharat.