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Mobile phones without panic button not to be imported after February

Posted on: 16/Jan/2017 4:32:34 PM
The Centre government has announced that the deadline to allow imports of mobile phones without panic button is Feb. 28, 2017. Starting March 1, smartphone manufacturers must integrate the emergency calling feature into the phones before importing them to India.

According to the DoTs office memorandum, It has been decided by the competent authority that the import of mobile phone handsets without Panic Button/Emergency call button feature prescribed as per `Panic Button and Global Positioning System Facility in all mobile phone handsets Rules 2016.shall be allowed till 28th February 2017 wef 01.01.2017.
 
Union Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said, Technology is solely meant to make human life better and what better than using it for the security of women. from January 1, 2017, no cell phone can be sold without a provision for panic button and from January 1, 2018 mobile sets should have also GPS inbuilt.
 
The panic button came into being after the gruesome gang-rape and murder of a paramedical student in Delhi in 2012. As the nation was shook by the horrific incident, several women safety measures were put into place. The Union Finance Ministry approved a Nirbhaya Fund, which administered police to trace and respond to distress calls with minimum response time.