New Delhi, Feb 05, 2021: High speed 4G internet services are being restored across Jammu and Kashmir, a senior government official said on Friday, more than 18 months after they were snapped to prevent a backlash against the centre’s move to revoke the former state’s special status.
"4G mobile internet services being restored in entire J&K," tweeted Jammu and Kashmir administration spokesperson Rohit Kansal.
Jammu and Kashmir was put under what became the world’s longest-running internet shutdown in a democratic country on August 5, 2019 when the centre announced plans to revoke it decades-old special powers listed in the constitution.
In days that followed, the state was split into two union territories - Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh - and several politicians, including three former Chief Ministers, were taken into detention to pre-empt a pushback.