Blame it on evil thoughts, narrow mentality or a non-integral state of mind but the facts remain undispersed. The fact that crime against women is increasing steeply and what we saw last December in Delhi was beyond the unimaginable. Blaming or starting over a new course of discussion on this issue will be of little help and the need of the hour is strong self-security measures a girl must have. This article throws a light over some specific security measures that a girl can easily undertake through her mobile phone to prevent any unforeseen incidence.
Google’s Android platform saw some new entrant on January after the gruesome incident last December. These new Android applications are free and very easy to use and access. Let’s take an overview.
1. Nirbhaya: This name is symbolic and was given to the deceased victim. This Android application sends a distress message with the location to people in a group specified by the user in emergency situation. Apart from local police authorities, hospitals you can have your close relatives on the group. You can also customize the type of emergency and assign different groups for different emergency. This application is available in the Google Play store
2. Fight Back: This application generates a security alert when user pushes a central button. The security alert and the exact location of the user are sent via SMS, Facebook and email to people specified for help. Available on the Google Play store
3. Me against Rape: Beside the feature like above this application also has some advanced add on like activation of cell phone camera and voice recorder to act as evidence against eve-teasers. It sends location coordinate to all the people predefined on the list every 10 minutes so that the user’s location can be continuously tracked. Google it !!
Follow
your instincts; there is always an unnatural feeling before an unnatural
happening.
(With inputs from 'digit')
