REGISTERED No.D.(D)-72
The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 3—Sub-section (i)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 236] NEW DELHI, THURSDAY. AUGUST 28, 1975/BHADRA 6, 1897
Separate paging is given to this Part in order that it may be filed
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MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS
(Ports and Telegraphs)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 28th August 1975
G.S.R. 468(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 7 of the Indian Tele- graph Act, 1885 (13 of 1885), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Indian Telegraph Rules, 1951, namely:—
1.(1) These Rules may be called the Indian Telegraph (Fourth Amendment) Rules, 1975.
(2) They shall come into force on the 1st day of September, 1975.
2. In the Indian Telegraph Rules, 1951, in rule 434, after Section III, the following Section shall be inserted, namely :—
"III-A. Deposits along with applications for connections under Own Your Telephone
Scheme and under Special or General Categories:
(1869)
1870 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART II—(1) (a) Every application for telephone connection shall be accompanied with an amount of deposit of a specified sum as shown in the Table below :->
TABLE
Own Your Telephone applications Capacity of Exchange system
Below 1000
lines
iOjOoo lines
and.above
1000 lines and
above^but below
10,000 lines
Rs.
Rs.
Rs.
. 4 J O OO
,5,000
3^000
Amount of deposit
GENERAL AND SPECIAL CATEGORY APPLICATIONS
Type and capacity of Exchange systems
Metered Exchanges
Flat Rate Exchanges
Under
Over 100 lines
100
lines
Below IOjOOO lines
IOjOOO lines and above
Manual of 20
lines or less
providing
restricted
hours of
service
Manual over 20 lines providing restricted houis of service
Rs.
R s.
Rs.
Rs.
Rs.
Rs.
LI,OOO
800
800
fcljOOO
600
Amount^of deposit
400
(b) The deposit under sub-item (a) shall carry an interest for the period com- mencing on the date of deposit and ending with the date immediately preceding the date of sanction of the telephone, at the rate payable by the State Bank of India on fixed deposits made with such Bank for a period of one year and the interest shall be calculated for the completed number of months at the rate in force on the date of deposit.
(c) On sanctioning of a telephone, the amount of deposit held with the appli- cation together with the interest accrued thereon, shall be adjusted as follows:—
(i) Own Your Telephone Applications • Towardsjthe OwnJYourjTelephoneJdeposIt
and advancejrcntal.
(ii) General 01 Special Category Towards security ^deposit [and advance Applications.
rental.
(2) (a) In case of an application made before the 1st day of September, 1975, being the date of commencement of the Indian Telegraph (Fourth Amend- ment) Rules, 1975 and in respect of which telephone connection has not been provided, the applicant shall bo required to pay to such authority, as may be specified in the notice issued by the Telegraph Authority, the relevant sum specified in the Table below sub-item (a) of item <1) within a period of three months from the date of issue of the notice.
(b) If the applicant does not deposit with the authority the sum within the period specified in the notice referred to in sub-item (a), the application shall be cancelled and the application fee of ten rupees collected from such applicant at the time of making the application shall be refunded to him.1'
[No. 2-23/74-PHA.]
D. N. RAMCHANDANI,
Senior Member (Administration) 3 Ex-Officio Additional Secretary Government of India
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