Rs 1,000 fine for non-verification of customers

New Delhi, Apr 25: The government will impose Rs 1,000 as penalty charges on the telecom operators for non-verification of customers identity.

''We would impose Rs 1,000 penalty per subscriber on telcos for non-compliance of TRAI's order for verification of customers identity,'' Communication and IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran told reporters here today.

In this direction, a sample survey has been done for gauging the performance of various telecom operators.

Reliance and Hutch have shown a good response verifying 93 per cent of their customers followed by Bharti with 90 per cent.

State-owned BSNL have cleared 86 per cent of their verifications while Spice telecom and Tata Teleservices have done pretty badly, he said.

UNI