Ttelegram service comes to an end in India

                          The last telegram went out in last Sunday, making an end to of service that lakhs of Indians relied on the for the fast communication until recently. The BSNL says the declining revenues forced it to end the service and it had become obsolete in the age of new mode communication 

                                The telegraph was the first form of communication and the messages  could be sent from a great distance. This was a one of the  landmark inventions  in the  human history. With the advent of the telegraph, messages were transmitted instantaneously to  farther and farther till it connected people from around the world by pressing a few buttons. Samuel Morse refined this technology and later led to the invention of wireless Radio Communication by Marconi.

                         India's telegram service began in 1850, when the first telegram was sent from the eastern city of Kolkata to Diamond Harbor, a southern suburb nearly 25 miles from the city center.At its peak in 1980s and 1990s6 lakhs telegrams were sent everyday from the birth announcements to job appointments  court summons to college admissions the telegram was main way communication to the millions of Indians and it was used until recently in many official purposes. It was not  informed by the government which way of communication they use in future..