The government has extended the cut-off date by means of two months for mobile smartphone producers to put into effect the panic button feature in new handsets.
"At the request of cellular device manufacturers, we've extended the length for implementing panic button in new handsets by means of two months ... the gamers had made a request announcing they have got unsold inventory of mobile phones without the panic button ... so we have given them an extension until February 28," Telecom Secretary J S Deepak advised PTI.
The government in April 2016 mandated that everyone mobile telephone in the USA from January 1, 2017, will be offered with panic button characteristic.
As according to the order, pressing the panic button will make a call to single emergency range 112.
"The mobile smartphone makers have taken up the venture to permit extra than 2 crore telephones each month with panic button very severely. enterprise is absolutely prepared. there may be the minor aberration due to demonetization with a view to being corrected in subsequent 1-2 months," industry frame ICA countrywide President Pankaj Mohindroo stated.
Additionally, the government has mandated that from January 1, 2018, no mobile handset producer shall sell the new device in India without the power of figuring out the vicinity through satellite-based totally GPS.
The idea of a device with panic button feature became floated after brutal gangrape of a paramedical student in Delhi. The Ministry of Finance accredited a Nirbhaya Fund following the incident, beneath which integration of the police management with cellular telephone community to hint and reply to misery calls with minimum reaction time, turned into to be achieved.
Meanwhile, the trial run of ambitious helpline 112, a good way to be India's equal to 911 of the USA's all-in-one emergency services, has been halted due to numerous clean calls that were being obtained at the range, in keeping with a senior police officer.