2.1. Purpose
The purpose of this policy is to control and reduce the communication cost in an effective way. Telephones are the most convenient and fastest mode of communication but for long distance communication, they are expensive.
There are other modes for fast communication such as courier, fax or e-mail. And out of these, e-mail is fast and more affordable. Sisu Vikas Samiti prefers to use e-mail for out of station correspondence to reduce the communication costs. Telephones can be used for local calls and in emergency for national & international long distance calls.
Internet service at the office can be used to download and send email and to conduct work-related research.
2.2 Guidelines
Sisu Vikas Samiti provides the following guidelines to its staff to control telephone use.
a. Telephone users are requested to keep their conversations short in order to keep the cost down and to keep the lines open for other people in and outside the office that need to use the telephone.
b. In general, employees should avoid using phones for non-official calls and are encouraged to use STD/ISD facilities available outside the office. However, the non-official calls will be billed to employees at prevailing rates. To keep track of such calls, a record sheet is provided to each employee working in the office in order to make it easier to remember to record the long distance calls (STD / ISD). All long distance calls should be recorded on this sheet along with all required information and submit to the finance division of each month.
c. In order to minimize communication costs as much as possible, e mail should be used rather than fax or direct long distance calls.
d. Copies of all in-coming and out-going official communications (fax, letters sent or received) should be filed. The employees sending/receiving important e-mails should be responsible to print and file such e-mails. A copy should go in the central file system.
e. Efforts should be made to keep fax messages short and to send long documents by fax only in urgent cases.
f. Regarding international phone calls, the need for the official call should be discussed verbally with the Director, unless exceptional circumstances make this impractical.
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