New Delhi: Within hours of announcing '167' as women helpline number, the Telecom Ministry today changed it to '181' saying the new three-digit number was easier to remember.
Amidst nationwide uproar over brutal gang-rape of a 23-year old paramedic student, the Telecom Ministry for the first time in two years released a three-digit number, 167, for women helpline.
However, "upon request for a number that would be easier to recollect", the number has been changed to '181', a statement from the Department of Telecom said.
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit had requested Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal to allot a three-digit phone number for helping women in distress.
"Though DoT has limited resource in respect of three-digit numbers, yet within two hours of the request, a
three-digit number has been allotted for Chief Minister's helpline," the statement 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 gang-rape case, where a 23-year-old student was raped by a group of six people in a moving bus in Delhi on December 16.
Amidst nationwide uproar over brutal gang-rape of a 23-year old paramedic student, the Telecom Ministry for the first time in two years released a three-digit number, 167, for women helpline.
However, "upon request for a number that would be easier to recollect", the number has been changed to '181', a statement from the Department of Telecom said.
"Though DoT has limited resource in respect of three-digit numbers, yet within two hours of the request, a
three-digit number has been allotted for Chief Minister's helpline," the statement said.
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Protests across the country are being seen demanding speedy justice to the accused in the Delhi gang-rape case, where a 23-year-old student was raped by a group of six people in a moving bus in Delhi on December 16.
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