Jamshedpur, May 30: The BSNL mobile subscribers are facing a harrowing time in Jamshedpur for the past one month.

Disruption in connectivity has now made subscribers consider the BSNL mobile service as a “B-grade” service provider. The poor connectivity would continue for two more weeks.

Basic electronic equipment is being replaced in all the 101 BSNL towers set up across Jamshedpur. According to a highly placed source in BSNL’s Jamshedpur secondary switching area, BSNL was earlier using Nortel equipment, but now the department is using Ericsson equipment.

“We are replacing Nortel machinery with Ericsson equipment since the past one month. We expect the work to be over by mid-June,” said R.K. Mishra, the general manager, BSNL, Jamshedpur.

Sources said the replacement work is being carried out in full force and the disruption in connectivity was fallout of this work.

Jamshedpur, May 30: Police are contemplating to arrest the rest of the accused, including Tata Motors plant head S.B. Borwankar, in the Telco chlorine gas leak case.

Sub-inspector Pradip Choudhary, who is the investigating officer of the case, said that he had already raided the factory premises and residences of the accused persons, but all of them have absconded.

Choudhary told The Telegraph that he would obtain the arrest warrant from the court of chief judicial magistrate against the accused tomorrow so as to pursue the process of obtaining kurki jabti (seizure) warrant against all of them.

“Ten persons, including the Tata Motors plant head, have been made accused in the case. Borwankar is absconding. But, we will arrest the rest of the accused. The two accused in the case have already been arrested on May 28,” the investigating officer told The Telegraph.

Jamshedpur, May 29: Industrial activities in Adityapur industrial area seem poised to change for the better.

After Nitin Madan Kulkarni joined Adityapur Industrial Area Development Authority (Aiada) as managing director (MD), an exercise for screening the sick industries has begun.

The idea behind the exercise is to identify the sick industries and other industries, which cannot be revived. The industries, which cannot be revived, would be asked to vacant the land to pave way for new industries.

There are about 1,000 small, medium and large industrial units at Adityapur of which 815 units are operational at present. The management of Aiada had information that a sizeable number of industrialists have let out their premises on rent to operators of odd businesses.

When on one hand, almost 100 entrepreneurs were stalling their industrial projects for want of land in Adityapur, many of the unsuccessful industrialists have let out their premises to parties for operating scrap godowns or lathe machines.

Jamshedpur, May 29: If you are looking for the place where you can party on a Saturday night at the steel city, Karaoke Club at Hotel Citi Inn is the place to be.

Hip-hop, metal, trance and house genres would be played during the jam sessions with Bollywood numbers.

The idea of having music fusion nights clicked when the hotel officials visited various discotheques at the metropolitan cities.

They thought of organising the same at Hotel Citi Inn so that the people of steel city could shake a leg to the popular numbers and have their share of fun.

“Some officials came up with this idea and we thought of going ahead with it. Nowadays young people love to go partying and we thought it would be a good idea to have fusion nights,” said Vijay Pillai, the general manager of the hotel.