Indian Railways brings R-Mitra app for women’s safety
Indian Railways brings R-Mitra app for women’s safety R-Mitra app works both online and offline in SMS mode by using the helpline number 56161. Comments (1) By: PTI | New Delhi | Published:August 21, 2015 8:26 pm Indian Railways brings R-Mitra app for women’s safety http://indianexpress.com/ article/technology/tech-news- technology/indian-railways- brings-r-mitra-app-for-womens- safety/#sthash.ZDIDAR3u.dpuf Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu today inaugurated a mobile-based application system introduced by Eastern Railway, R-Mitra, to ensure women’s safety and said that it is an “extremely useful app” that could be used by regional railways nation-wide. “Around 2.7 crore to 3 crore people travel in the Indian Railways system on a day-to-day basis. Different types of crimes are committed by anti-social elements,” Prabhu said at the Eastern Railway headquarter here. “It is a big challenge to deal with crime in railway properties,” the ...