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After Nirbhaya incident, government
had formed the Justice Verma
Committee to decide course of action
to address women’s safety in public
transportation. Government announced
Nirbhaya fund for safety and security of
women but even after 7 years nothing
has been implemented on ground to
protect women in public transportation.
Government has taken steps against
criminals involved in women and girl child
abuse by giving them capital punishment
but no preventive measures have been
taken by the concerned government
authorities to ensure safety and security
of women citizen. The similar sentiments (Photo: Tribune photo: Manas Ranjan Bhu)
have been expressed by Raahat - The systems. The Industry expected demand support. Deferring the implementation
Safe Community Foundation in a letter to of ~4.4 million public service vehicles will result into cost cutting measures from
the President and Prime Ministry of India. (including buses and taxis) by end of industry thus resulting in loss of Jobs.
Recent announcement by MoRTH to FY19. Suppliers have already committed The state of uncertainty and
delay the implementation of AIS-140 to huge investments in terms of money, accumulated losses due to deferral
driven regulation by one year will put manpower and building technological may impact badly on the Industrial
us in a situation as similar to EUROPE’s infrastructure for developing the Ecosystem.
e-Call implementation (e-call regulation in regulation compliant product.
Europe was finalized in 2015 and came As per the national testing agencies Interim Solution proposed
under implementation only in April 2018). (i.e. ARAI and iCAT), there are more than while the government is
India has the right ecosystem in place to ten AIS-140 compliant solution (VTS+ getting ready with the
expedite any such important initiative. Emergency Button) providers who have backend:
Delay in implementing such measures will successfully obtained homologation It is proposed to launch the initiative
further aggravate the current situation of certification. in phased manner. The compliance
public transport in India. could begin in states like Delhi & Kerala
Effect of delayed Opportunity lost in who have the backend infrastructure
job-creation:
implementation on industry: Large scale implementation within ready. The systems could then be
Notification released by MoRTH in stipulated timeline across India required deployed in phased manner in various
states considering the availability of
November, 2016 had given sufficient industry to be ready with sufficient the vendors providing the backend
time to the ecosystem for large-scale manpower for avoiding the “demand services. The sates like Maharashtra,
implementation. After the reaffirmation supply gap” as well as providing the after Gujarat and Tamil Nadu where working
from the Ministry on 17th Jan 2018 sales support. The on time implementation women population is very high can
(through a tweet), entire supply chain of “Indigenously developed AIS-140 start implementation in phase 2 and
has geared up in order to comply with compliant devices could have marked followed by Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh
the regulation. Thousands of vehicles a huge success for “Make in India” and Telangana etc. The solution can rely
registered from 1st April till 20th April initiative too. Regulation has created on the vendors who are providing the
with AIS-140 compliant solution and humongous job opportunities for skilled device to the states and can provide the
are running on the roads[7]. During as well non-skilled workers because of backend infrastructure as a service, as a
these first 20 days of April, industry scale of the implementation. It involves, stop-gap arrangement.
had already started ramping up the manufacturing of hardware components
capacities and inventory got build up. like vehicle tracking device (components In the event, when panic button
The losses runs into several crores. as – embedded SIM, PCB, casing), wiring is pressed signal can be sent to the
Various SMEs (Small and Medium harness, panic button, etc. backed by police control room of the state to take
necessary actions. Thus, ensuring the
Scale Enterprises) from device software framework support such as – safety of the passengers in distress.
circuit designing, casing, wiring cloud services, communication protocols, The service providers can help in the
harness, packaging and panic button data centre, etc. which are creating transition till states are ready with their
manufacturing are involved, which are employment for skilled workforce. This emergency response infrastructure.
supplying raw materials to product also needs on ground support to do the
companies for manufacturing these fitment of devices in vehicles and after sales Source: UITP India

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