Coming of Mobile-phone Technology

Indians are most intelligent, and that can be seen by how we had adopted the latest technology for our benefit. Now we are trying to located lost citizens in the floods of Uttrakhand by tracking their last calls from their mobiles. Mobiles have helped us a great deal in recent times. Since spectrum waves were sold at low prices, several mobile service companies have been competing with each other. With the result, we have offers which make using mobiles very cheap. Talk time charges are nominal. Mobile phones have become very common among all Indians. Mobile telephones have changed the lifestyles of average Indian in a very big way. New social networks have come into being. It is new kind of thinking "I" and "my phone" to "my friend" "my world"; all this is new to the psyche of the traditional Indian mind. We generally do not have individual opinions. Parents do suspect the freedom they have given their child by providing him with a mobile; "khap panchayats" do not allow women to use cell phones; upper castes resent the freedom bestowed on the suppressed lower castes as all use mobile phones. Except for the very poor in rural India, all use mobile phones frequently. Culture has been revitalised by cell phones as everyone likes to use to listen to music. SMS has become common. SMS in native language can help in communicating "on-line" market prices (agri-markets). Farmers and fishermen can know the market value of their produce/catch. Mobile phones have helped us connect to one another; they have improved businesses in leaps and bounds. Economic development has received a turbo boost because of the coming of mobile phones. All business activities have been fine tuned by mobile phones. With the result, India is growing very fast. Since it has become mandatory to give phone numbers of government officers on public domain, they can be accessed easily by all. There is no shroud which would block reaching them. This has reduced the “bribes” for accessing them for information or course of action. What is very amazing is that, politicians have started using mobiles to connect themselves to the citizens. Recently, a politician had his “talk with a citizen” broadcasted on TV. This is becoming more and more popular. Better results will come only when the politician values the requirements of the citizens he speaks to. Block Development officers were asked to send SMS messages of the the project they were overseeing every Monday; and at the end of the month, a whole report was generated from the results. Civil engineers had to send photographs of the progress of their projects to the control room and this assured that they were present on the site. So we can check our officers using the technology we have as never before thought. If an officer had accepted a bribe, he could be photographed unknowingly by a cell phone, and this would be counted as evidence against him, in a court of law. So we can counter-check graft, and it has empowered the citizenry.  We can check if government actions are transparent or not. Health services have received a boon; we can access hospitals by our mobiles when we need an ambulance. When a medicine which we need arrives at our pharmacy, we receive a call or a SMS  to get it. Our lives have been transformed by mobile telephone. Crime investigations have become accurate and easily solvable when cell-phone records become available. Students have benefited most and they adopt very very fast., they now access Internet by mobiles. Cell phones have changed our lives and enlightened our minds. They have empowered us and made us capable enough to demand our rights.