NEW DELHI, Aug 5 (PTI) - An unsolicited telemarketing call to Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is what it took Telecom Minister A Raja to swing into action for prohibiting immediately such intruding calls.
Within hours of reports that Mukherjee himself was at the receiving end of such calls, Raja activated his ministry to take steps against such calls that "encroach" into the privacy of telecom consumers, an issue that has been haunting every single consumer despite the regulator TRAI's attempts to ban such a nuisance.
Raja has asked Telecom Secretary PJ Thomas to convene a meeting and steps be taken to prohibit unsolicited calls immediately.
"A wide range of products and services are now a days offered through tele-marketing which result in inconvenience and disturbance to telecom consumers," Raja said in a note to the secretary.
