Keeping this in mind, an Indian security solutions company has developed a software which, it claims, can bring an end to the problem and installed it in Lucknow.
"We have developed a software 'Rolta GeoCAD' that can interlink all emergency numbers and applications with a single control room number.
"Be it a women's helpline number of any state or city, 108 of ambulance, fire stations 101, or anti-ragging cell, all can be connected by just dialling 100," said C R Bannur, senior divisional director of homeland security solution company 'Rolta India'.
In the US, the 911 emergency number can be dialled from any telephone. It immediately links the caller to an emergency dispatch centre which can send emergency responders to the caller's location by automatically pairing caller numbers with a physical address.
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Whenever a call is made, the location is traced instantly and the nearest help team gets automatically alerted, considerably reducing the response time, he said, claiming that the current system of separate helpline numbers takes much more time.
"We have already installed GeoCAD with Lucknow Police's control room and interlinked it with all the emergency numbers in the city and our initiative is giving fruitful results," said Pavan Vinnakota, its manager who was part of a team that worked for Lucknow Police when the system was installed.
"Rolta is probably the only Indian company to have developed its own patented and highly advanced DIAL 100 Solutions, comparable with the 911 Solution being used in the USA," Bannur said.