7 Revolutionary Mobile Phone Ideas That Has Redefined The Lives of Rural People

BANGALORE: The prospect of growth in the mobile phone has hit a saturation point in big cities, Indian cellular service providers are gearing up to delve deeper into under-penetrated rural areas.

With income levels rising due to robust agricultural output and the rural economy getting increasingly mainstreamed, mobile phone operators are eyeing the countryside with a view to maintaining the scorching pace of growth.

The share of the rural market in the country's mobile population is, however, less than 15 percent. Further, recent figures show that the new monthly additions are slowing down a bit with operators seeing signs of stagnation in their prime urban markets. Here is the list of 8 Mobile phone ideas that are re-defining the lives of rural people in India as compiled by The Better India.

1. Tracking & ensuring that government entitlements

This mobile based checking framework, by WOSCA is following vocation privileges of rural groups. In the remotest of towns of Odisha, the clannish people are uninformed of a few administration plans like the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Generation Scheme, Public Distribution System and Pension schemes because of absence of awareness among these people.

They are typically barred from different government plans they are qualified to get advantage from. The mobile based framework by WOSCA understands the need of hour by following the precision of social assurance conveyance benefits by the legislature for the poor people. Volunteers from WOSCA use SMS or MMS to disperse data about open appropriation to the Management Information System. These reports are then shared by government authorities and neighborhood groups for straightforwardness.

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