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India just turned on a system that can warn over a billion phones in under 10 seconds. The loud alarm that scared everyone today was the test run. When a flood or an earthquake hits, regular text messages fail. SMS is one-to-one. Each text goes to one phone at a time, and during a real emergency, when the whole country is calling family, the network gets jammed. People wait hours for a warning. Sometimes the warning never gets there at all. The new system, called Cell Broadcast, works like a radio station. The cell tower throws one signal into the air, and every phone in range catches it at the same instant. There’s no queue and no waiting. Millions of phones light up together. The whole thing was built in India, by a government lab called C-DOT. It runs in 19 Indian languages. It doesn’t need a SIM card or mobile data. The signal goes straight from the tower into your phone hardware. It’s also smart enough to aim. The government can send a cyclone warning only to people on the coast of Andhra Pradesh, while Delhi gets nothing. Tsunamis, earthquakes, lightning strikes, gas leaks, and chemical spills are next. India already had a slower version of this. It’s called SACHET, and it has sent 134 billion alerts over the years. Cell Broadcast sits on top of SACHET and kicks in when seconds decide who lives. For context: Japan built this in 2007, after years of earthquakes. The US built theirs in 2012. India just joined the club, and at over a billion phones, this is now one of the biggest emergency broadcast networks on the planet.

Clarification: LPG Biometric Aadhaar Authentication (eKYC) only required for unauthenticated LPG customers and not all customers Some news reports have been circulating on the issue of biometric aadhaar authentication for LPG consumers. In this regard it’s clarified that THIS IS NOT A FRESH DIRECTION. The recent post by the ministry is a part of the ongoing efforts of the Government to encourage more LPG consumers to complete biometric aadhaar authentication. · The requirement of eKYC applies to those LPG consumers who have not done eKYC so far. If you are a non-PMUY customer and have done it before, you don’t need to do it again. · PMUY customers need to do it only once every financial year, that too only for receiving targeted DBT subsidies after 7 refills i.e. on 8th and 9th refill. · eKYC can be done easily sitting at home, free of cost. · Supply of refills is not affected in any case. eKYC ensures transparency, establishes clear eligibility, weeds out ghost consumers and discourages diversion of LPG.

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