What is the reason behind the Emergency Alert on your phone?
What is the reason behind the Emergency Alert on your phone?
Emergency alert on phone: A message has been sent by the Department of Telecommunications, Government of India through Cell Broadcasting System. This message has come on the smartphones of many users across the country. As soon as this message arrived, the smartphone started vibrating rapidly. The message was sent rapidly with twenty sounds. As soon as the message arrived, the people working in the office got worried and started looking around to see what had happened suddenly. Where is this sound coming from? If you have also received this message then you do not need to panic. Read the entire article to know the reason behind sending this message.
This message is an important part of the emergency alert system.
Let us tell you that this message is a part of the emergency alert system, which is being prepared by the National Disaster Management Authority. The purpose behind sending this message is to alert people in times of emergency. To test this system, the message was sent on September 15 around 12:30 pm.
The message of emergency alert had also come in August.
This message is not the first time on the users’ phones, a similar message had come last month on August 18 also. At this time, users got worried after seeing the emergency alert message. Then this message was sent only to the phones of BSNL customers. Then C-DOT CEO Rajkumar Upadhyay told that this technology is currently available through a foreign vendor, hence C-DOT is developing this system in-house. However, this time Airtel customers have also received this message, due to which people got scared.
Message came twice
First this message came in English on the users’ phones. After a few minutes, the message again in Hindi also came on the users’ smart phones. The message reads, “This is a sample test message sent by the Department of Telecommunications, Government of India, through the Cell Broadcasting System. Please ignore it. This message is in response to the All India Emergency Alert being implemented by the National Disaster Management Authority. “The system has been sent for testing. The purpose of this system is to enhance public safety and provide timely alerts during emergencies.”
What is the reason behind the message?
Let us tell you that the purpose behind sending this message will be to test the capabilities of the warning system and the efficiency and effectiveness of the cell broadcasting system. To understand the purpose behind this message in more simple words, you must have read the news of the earthquake in Morocco. Many cities have been destroyed due to the earthquake here, in which several thousand people have lost their lives. In such a situation, the disaster management team of the Government of India is working on this to ensure that people remain alert in advance. With this, people can be alerted before any major disaster occurs. Its entire process will work in the same way as a warning message was sent on the radio.
