Telegram services in India shuts down on July 14

[Sushubh]

As mentioned earlier in the thread... Telegram could have been merged with the ePost service.

 

[mhsabir]

Yeah...
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/lawyers-defence-personnel-scouting-for-alternatives-after-telegram-closure/article4815057.ece

In civil cases, orders relating to eviction or staying of encroachment and directions for police protection are communicated by telegraph, while its use is widespread in matters relating to habeas corpus and bail petitions.
“Litigants will suffer irreparably. When telegram services are not available, the entire court order should be communicated through fax. Because of this requirement, the operative portion of any court order cannot be communicated hereafter. Consequently, litigants who get orders in their favour cannot get them implemented immediately. Justice may be defeated,” says M. Radhakrishnan, an advocate.

“If somebody sends a telegram, a certified copy will be given along with the receipt. Such documents can be marked as evidence in cases related to illegal detention or preventive detention. There are instances of detenus being released based on a telegram,” says R. Azhagumani, an advocate in Madurai.
Armed forces personnel in high altitude or border areas, too, depend still on telegrams.
M.K. Sikdar, Chief Editor of the Armed Forces Law Journal, points out that when a soldier on leave wishes to extend his leave for an emergency, he has to send a telegram to his camp, which may be situated in a remote area.

I think some alternatives will have to be planned for all this...

 

[Sushubh]

Righto. The actual problem would be discovered today. As I mentioned earlier... All of us have relatives who live in distant part of the country. And not always would you have access to their current telephone/mobile number (if they have any!). Telegraph was one of the best ways to send a message urgently.
I am amazed at the reaction online from the fools who think that everyone in this country has access to a mobile phone. Though I did read some funny comments as well. Telegraph being an analog technology could have come super handy in times of zombie attacks.

 

[mhsabir]

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/telegram-is-dead-but-v-hv-sms-n-email/article4915397.ece?homepage=true

In the 1980s, the service began using the electro-mechanical teleprinter, which had a QWERTY keyboard. This was later upgraded to a web-based system.Today ‘WRU’ (where are you) may be used in text messaging, but the same three letters were used a long time ago to confirm if the telegram had reached the right centre. The other centre would respond using the ‘here is’ key, according to information from the Rajiv Gandhi Memorial Telecom Training Centre.

So, looks like indeed a web based system.

A. Mundro, who delivers the telegrams, said that he had been at the job for 32 years. He has braved snakes, been bitten by a dog, rung the wrong doorbell in the middle of the night, waded through water and received goodwill when he carried happy news.“Right from the weather to the price of the vegetables at Kothwal Chavadi market, it is the telegram which carried crucial piece of information. Unlike a postman we cannot drop a letter into a post box and leave it at that. When we carried a message of death, people would forget to sign the receipt in their grief. I have been wearing black for the past three days to mourn the ending of the telegraph service,” he said.Over the next two days, for the last time ever, Mundro will get on to his two-wheeler to deliver telegrams.

 

[Sushubh]

Kaunsa plan use kar rahe hai yeh log? Airtel 3G pay per kb wala?

 

[KurianOfBorg]

I'm pretty sure they supposed to maintain resilient means of communication between places for telegrams such as morse code lines etc. even now.