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| Mobile phone bills paid in cauliflowers A mobile phone company has launched a scheme allowing villagers to pay for phone calls with their crops. A kilo of cauliflowers will pay for a one-minute call from Uttar Pradesh to New Delhi. The service allows families to keep in touch with relatives working in the Gulf. Escotel lets people pay for phone calls with milk, fruit and vegetables as part of its Cellular Rural Phone Service. They can also be exchanged for phone cards in several villages in rural India. The Business Standard newspaper reports it's up to the phone operator to sell the produce and pay the phone company at the end of every month. Dilshad Ali, an operator in Todi Tera Birsa, says most of the local men work in the Gulf. He added that it can be hard for relatives to pay in cash so they pay in kind. Shahana Begum said: "Paying the bill by cane and milk is a boon for us since these commodities are usually available. Cash becomes difficult at times." 1st February 2002 |
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