While asking the administration to restore the Internet, Kashmir Editors Guild (KEG) has said that the suspension of the service was troubling all sections of the society in Kashmir.
“It has been more than three months and the Internetservices still remain suspended in Kashmir, troubling all sections of thesociety particularly the local media,” KEG observed in a meeting held here onThursday.
The KEG members said that it is not the media only that isfacing the brunt of the Internet blockade but other sections of the society tooare suffering.
The KEG members asked the government to restore at leastbroadband services to media houses, educational and health institutions andbusiness community, particularly the ones affiliated with tourism sector.
The meeting observed that the publication of localnewspapers is becoming increasingly impossible in the absence of internetservices.
“Despite all odds, the local newspaper organizations ensured that their newspapers hit the stands every morning and tried to share, whatever information they could gather despite information blockade, with their readers. But it is now becoming too difficult as the communication situation is not improving a bit,” the KEG members said, adding, “Newspapers can’t continue their publication exclusively depending on a few Internet facilitated systems of the Information Department.”
“For smooth functioning of the newspapers, collection anddissemination of information, KEG asks the administration to restore at leastbroadband internet services to registered newspapers,” the KEG members said.