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Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) needs to be proactive in addressing issue of Value Added Service

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Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) needs to be proactive in addressing issue of Value Added Service TRAI has ensured the growth of telecom industry in India for which they need to be complemented. With its proactive approach, the telecom services have reached to the villages.  The total number of mobile connection in India now stands close to 100 crores. The total population of India is expected to be about 120 crores . With this we can safely say that teledensity of telecom users is close to 80 .  All economic strata of population in India have been penetrated with a mobile connection as one can easily find the penetration of the mobile connection with even disadvantageous class of society, be it rickshaw wallah, maid or kabaadiwalla.   It is also seen that the prepaid mobile connection is one of the favorite modes of the usage by most of the telecom subscribers. Appox . 80% subscribers fall in the category of prepaid mobile users that means close to 80 crores use
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Is really the Domestic Violence Act being misused? While visiting face book I find many posts in the face book depicting that there is abundant misuse of domestic violence Act by women. There have been alarming statistics showing many numbers of cases being filed by many educated women and even some news items mentioning that the wife marry the innocent boys just to extort the money and then stay happily with their boy friends. There have been circulars issued by various Police Commissioners as well as comments made by hon'able judges in their judgement and even the Supreme Court has termed it as a Legal Terrorism. In order to have  some statistical analysis, I had submitted an application under RTI Act 2005 to Ministry of Home Affairs to seek certain details about the statistical figures pertaining to cases being filed by such women in the territory of Delhi falling under the jurisdiction of Delhi Police. In most probability such details would not be available and MHA would