The parishad will conduct a signature campaign at Churchgate station and later at the CST and the Dadar stations. ``We plan to collect one lakh signatures and send it to the Telecommunications minister,'' a parishad activist said.

The GHP also plans to send one lakh post cards to the minister urging her not to increase the telephone tariffs and later file a writ petition in the Bombay High Court seeking its intervention.

Questioning the decrease in the long distance and international calls, the organisation has argued that it will only benefit the rich and the elite in the country. The organisation has described the rates as a burden on the middle and lower middle classes where the charges on local calls have been increased by 225 per cent.

In its plea to the ministry, the organisation has stressed that all the recommendations that hurt the middle class, like increase in the rentals, should not be accepted. It has also demanded that the 5 per cent service charges on the rentals should be further reduced.