I spoke to cc just now and they said the 199 plan cannot be used as a stand alone plan. You need a base plan. 199 can be used only as a top up if your base plan data is exhausted.
even airtel does not offer 299 as a stand alone plan.
this makes sense , else nobody would opt for their STB.
I recharged with the Rs. 234 plan and my recharge was successful. No other plans just the combo one. I got 1000 GB of data and also 50 GB extra as some migration plan. I've been getting about 100 Mbps down but the upload is not higher than 9 Mbps( of all the speed tests I did, I only got 9 Mbps up once, all other times it was around 5-6 Mbps).
I don't know if this is just this plan that is capping the upload speed or if it's fucking jio itself. I did see some tweets about low upload speeds.