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Whether the rules and regulations of TRAI are adequate to handle menace of telemarketing calls

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Whether the rules and regulations of TRAI are adequate to handle menace of telemarketing calls (Unsolicited Commercial Communication) Dear Readers, I am drawing the attention towards a recent newspaper report that has appeared in Dainik Jagran dtd. 3rd October 2013. The newspaper clipping is pasted in the post. As per the report, the telecom subscribers are suffering from the menace of telemarketing calls. The question is whether the regulations framed by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) are adequate enough to restrict the telemarketers to resort to telemarketing calls and violate the regulations. I have written six articles on this blog right from 11/05/2012 onwards and have brought out the deficiencies in the regulations. The copies of such articles have been sent to TRAI. As usual, TRAI seems to be not interested in giving relief to the customers from the nuisance of telemarketing business. As whatever the deficiencies have been brought out still remains to b...