cellular manufacturers had been asked to put in a software program in all current telephones to offer for a panic button like feature at the click of one single range to help customers in case of emergency.
The modern day course from the DoT follows an earlier order requiring handset makers to put in panic button in all new phones to be sold January 1, 2017 onwards.
For existing phones, the handset makers may even need to set up for set up of new software patch at retail outlets, DoT stated in a current order without specifying any timeline for the compliance.
The software patch will provide facility similar to panic button which at the click of ‘nine’ or ‘5’ will generate a name to single emergency smartphone wide variety ‘112’, the order stated The 112 number facility may be active from January 1. it will steadily update all existing emergency numbers like one hundred for police, 102 for ambulance, 108 for hearth service, railway crime prevention variety 1512, police headquarter helpline – 1090 (Uttar Pradesh) and many others.
“… it is requested to put in the software patch (es) in existing cellular phone handsets inside the usa for implementation of characteristic/facilities of panic button,” the DoT order said. “further facility for uploading the developed patch may be created at outlets via the manufacturers/ distributors/retailers of cellular handset,” the order said. The government in April mandated that each one mobile telephones in the u . s . from January 1, 2017 might be sold with panic button characteristic.
As in keeping with the order, pressing panic button will make a name to unmarried emergency wide variety 112. additionally, from January 1, 2018, government has mandated that no cellular phone handset producer shall sell the brand new mobile phone handset in India with out the power of identifying the vicinity thru satellite primarily based GPS.
The idea of a device with panic button characteristic become floated after brutal gangrape of a paramedical student in Delhi.
The Ministry of Finance in December 2013 had authorized a Nirbhaya Fund, following the incident, underneath which integration of the police administration with mobile cellphone network to hint and respond to misery calls with minimum reaction time become to be finished.