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Monday, 24 December 2012

DoT announces women helpline number '181'

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Admist nationwide uproar over brutal gang-rape of a paramedic student, the Telecom Ministry Monday announced a three-digit women helpline number '181'."For helping women in distress, Delhi Chief Minister requested (Telecom Minister) Kapil Sibal to allot a three digit phone number.
"Though DoT has limited resource in respect of three-digit numbers, yet within two hours of the request, a three-digit number '167' has been allotted for Chief Minister's helpline," a statement from the Department of Telecom said.
This is the first three-digit number to have been allotted in two years.
Protests across the country are being seen demanding speedy justice to the accused in the Delhi gangrape case, where a 23-year-old para-medical student from Dehradun was alleged raped on Sunday night in a moving bus in New Delhi.

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