Solo women traveller helpline gets record messages

Solo women traveller helpline gets record messages
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Solo Women Traveller Helpline Gets Record Messages. The messages sent to the specially established helpline are stored in a central server based in the police control room, which can store almost one crore SMSs, and helps the police to make certain the cell tower location of the sender.

The messages sent to the specially established helpline are stored in a central server based in the police control room, which can store almost one crore SMSs, and helps the police to make certain the cell tower location of the sender. The newly-launched SMS-based helpline for women travelling alone by auto-rickshaws and taxis received as many as 400 text messages in just three days after its launch. Nonetheless, the majority of them were test messages sent by people inquisitive to know if it was really operational, according to sources.

The helpline requires women to provide the registration number of the vehicle they are travelling in. The helpline ‘9969777888’ was launched in the light of the Esther Anuhya murder case. The messages that women send to this number would be recorded in a central server based in the Mumbai police control room. The system also would help the police determine the cell tower location of the sender.

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