The people in Jammu & Kashmir, especially the younger generation, will heave a sigh of relief as the administration ordered the restoration of prepaid mobile service in the Valley after over five months of suspension. 2G mobile data services on postpaid mobiles for accessing the “whitelisted” sites were also resumed in two Kashmir districts - Kupwara and Bandipora. The administration has declared 153 sites as “whitelisted.” The administration has also ordered fixed line internet connectivity with precautions to companies engaged in software services in the Valley. The latest development comes a week after the Supreme Court on January 10 asked the J&K administration to review within a week all orders imposing curbs in the Union Territory. The Supreme Court came down heavily on the UT administration for arbitrarily shutting down internet, a facility described as a fundamental right by the apex court. Internet services, landline and mobile phones were snapped across Jammu and Kashmir on the eve of Centre's announcement to scrap special status of the erstwhile state and its bifurcation into Union Territories on August 5.
While most of the services except mobile internet were restored in Jammu within a week, Kashmir witnessed restoration of landlines and postpaid mobile services and internet facilities to essential services like hospitals in phases. Mobile internet connectivity would, however, remain suspended in Srinagar, Budgam, Ganderbal, Baramulla, Anantnag, Kulgam, Pulwama and Shopian districts in the Valley. Activities in our daily life are decided after the use of the internet. The internet innovated our daily life. We spend lots of time on the Web. Positive use of the internet makes our lives easy and simple. The internet provides us useful data, information, and knowledge for personal, social and economic development and it is up to us to utilise our time on the world wide web in a productive manner.
While there are various uses of the internet; you can use the facility for getting an online education. You can use the internet to promote your business online. The internet is a magical tool that will help you to become successful in your career and business. The positive and productive use of the internet will enrich our lives. The global network of computers has changed our lives tremendously. That’s why more than 40% of the world’s population is connected to the internet, according to internetlivestatus.com. This is because we are connected to various information and lifestyle facilities. It is because a large number of new people are getting connected to the Internet via their portable devices every day.
However, excessive use of internet can cause a child to develop internet addiction or compulsive internet use, which can cause several ill effects. It can also result in a range of harmful behaviour such as wrong use of social media, impulsive online buying, excessive video gaming and online gaming which is collectively termed as problematic use of the internet. It can also be used to spread hatred among different communities, spread rumours and mis-information. So judicious use of internet is the need of the hour.
