The government of Jammu and Kashmir has ordered the blocking of access to the YouTube and Facebook websites in the Valley and private cellular companies have also blocked GPRS facilities on the mobile telephones causing immense inconvenience to the subscribers, local media reports said on Monday.“Basically government has issued a directive to block the Facebook but other services are functioning,” General Manager Reliance (J&K) Ataullah Haque was quoted by Greater Kashmir, region’s leading newspaper.
Asked, was the company in possession of the “official directive,” the GM said the document would be with the regulatory department of the company.
A top BSNL official told the newspaper that the services have been disrupted on the directions of the State Government.
“We have blocked all the websites and services according to the government directive. Blackberry services have also been stopped,” he said.
Internet subscribers across the valley are complaining that the internet service has been blocked by companies including BSNL, Reliance, Aircel, Airtel and Vodafone.
“The service is completely down. Apart from jamming the social networking sites, the companies have started to put restrictions on general use like e-mails and on search engines as well,” the callers said.
They said their internet devices and GPRS service on mobile is not functioning in the wake of jamming of the service by the concerned cellular companies.
However, Minister for Information Technology, Aga Ruhullah has said there is no ban on Facebook and Youtube.
“There is not any ban on these websites. I don’t have proper information of it. I can’t confirm whether there is any technical snag in it,” Ruhullah said.
(EKNN)
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