Satellite Darshak Forum, a platform of television viewers, on Wednesday started a 10-day mass-signature campaign in Sylhet city to protest at the Sylhet Cable System Limited’s move to make compulsory the set-top box for clients and demanding resumption of airing the channels that has already been closed because of not buying the equipment.Addressing the inaugural session of the campaign at Housing Estate Area in the city at noon, the speakers alleged that the employees of Sylhet
Cable System, local agency of the satellite television channels provider, have been pressing the clients to buy the set-top box as early as possible for several weeks.
The SCS employees also have been giving threat saying the satellite line would be disconnected, otherwise, they complained.
The speakers also alleged that the SCS authorities have already stopped airing several popular channels including Star Plus and Star Jalsha to force the clients for buying the set-top boxes.
They sought intervention in the SCS bid to embezzle money from their clients in the name of introducing the device.
Sylhet City Corporation ward councillor Rezaul Hasan Kayes Ludi inaugurated the mass signature campaign, which was attended, among others, by Housing Estate Association acting general secretary Anwar Mazid Chowdhury, National Human Rights Society city unit president Jasim Uddin Badal, Atowar Khan, Saleh Ahmed Khasru, Abdul Awal and SDF coordinator Al Amin Chowdhury.
Al Amin informed the programme that
they would gradually run the campaign at all 27 wards in the city in the next 10 days to collect signatures in favour of their demands.
The SDF activists on Saturday formed a human chain in the city to push for the same demands, sources in the forum said.
-With New Age input
