“Of the 2 million or so replies, a lot of these answers were only ‘I support Free Basics’. I’m asking ‘are you in favour or of web neutrality’ and ‘should there be a guard’.
“So we wrote back requesting them to reply our four questions but we still have not got those,” Agneshwar Sen, counselor for Trai, told the media in Kolkata.

Sen said the goal was everybody as they need it, should get internet access.
“With the Free Basics, the sole problem is that there’s a program that is determining for you what you’re going to see for free and for what you’re going to pay and are they the men to determine it for you,” the official said.
“What we feel awful in Trai is the fact that there clearly was an opportunity for so many folks to tell us. But if I’m really going to tell you I do not need them to stop me afterward that is the direction we go,” he added.

Recording three important defects in the programme, the scientists encouraged Trai to “totally reject” Facebook’s “free principles” proposition.