BSNL's special plan for rural areas customers

BSNL has launched a special scheme of reduced fixed charges for
landline customers in rural areas, where the capacity of telephone
exchange is less than 1,000 lines and spare capacity is available.

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The scheme comprises of two options. Under the first option, the
customer has been given the freedom from paying monthly fixed charges
for 24 months by paying a lump sum amount of Rs 250. There are no free
calls and all the calls are charged at the rate of Re 1 per unit
inclusive of the service tax.

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Under the second option, monthly fixed charges have been reduced from
Rs 50 to Rs 20 per month and the number of free calls allowed are 20.

All the additional calls will be charged at the rate of Re 1 per unit
inclusive of the service tax.

All STD calls will be charged R e 1 per unit including service tax.

Installation charges have been reduced from Rs 300 to Rs 200. Besides,
the security deposit for local and STD has been reduced by 50%.

All BSNL customers (landline, WLL and mobile) would automatically get
a personal accident insurance coverage of Rs 50,000