Mobile will give earthquake alert, central government instructs phone companies to implement in six months

Earthquake Alert On Phone: For your information, let us tell you that work is going on on such a technology that in the coming time, the information about the earthquake will be known from the smartphone. The central government has given instructions to implement this f eature in smart phones.

New Delhi: Strong tremors of earthquake shook the entire North India including Delhi-NCR last month. However, there was no news of any damage due to this earthquake. Now your mobile phone will alert when such a disaster occurs. The government has compulsorily implemented the emergency alert feature. He has given 6 months time to the mobile manufacturer for this. In case of having the feature of alerting people simultaneously through the broadcast system, the mobile will issue an alert message as soon as the disaster strikes, which will be of at least 30 seconds. The status, area, name and intensity of the disaster will also be clear in this message.

Emergency alert feature is implemented in mobile phones in all the prosperous countries of the world. This system is also applicable in feature phones in all countries including America, Europe, Britain, Japan, China, Russia and Australia. But except for expensive mobile handsets in India, this feature was not inserted by the manufacturer companies. It can also be said that there is a lot of pirated phones in India, due to which this important feature was continuously ignored. If experts are to be believed, almost everyone in India has a mobile phone. One or two or more people in every household have mobile handsets.

Every company will have to update the alert feature in mobile phones.

In such a situation, there is no better system than this to alert people on a large scale. India has more than 120 crore mobile phone users and more than 60 crore smart phone users. In such a situation, this feature will prove to be important. Alert feature in mobile phones Now companies will have to put in every phone. Whether it is a feature phone of Rs 1,500 or a cheap smartphone. Presently, this feature is optional i.e. it is on the choice of the user whether to keep the emergency feature on or off. But it will not be closed in the coming days. For example, in some area of ​​your city, land sinks at a large place. This place is where the highway passes through.

In such a situation, you will get an alert in advance that if this has happened then you will be careful. In case of flood, cyclone and tsunami, people can take steps to protect themselves. While there is no machine or system to give forecast information in case of earthquake. But the earthquake hit some city and you are on the way. In such a situation, on receiving the alert, you will move ahead cautiously. The specialty of this feature is that it can alert the entire city, the entire state or the entire country simultaneously.

What is the instruction of the government?

1. The government has directed all handset manufacturers to sell only mobile handsets equipped with emergency alert system. 

2. It will be mandatory to have the facility in all feature phones and smartphones. 

3. There should be facility of emergency alert in Hindi-English or state related language. 

4. Companies were given 6 months to comply. 

5. Instructed to update software in old smartphones as well. 6. Sale of mobile handsets without emergency alert will be stopped.