IS THIS ‘MANDATORY WARNING SYSTEM’ OF THE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM HELPFUL OR A HINDRANCE ?

IS THIS ‘MANDATORY WARNING SYSTEM’ OF THE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM HELPFUL OR A HINDRANCE ?

2-AUG-ENG 20

RAJIV NAYAN AGRAWAL

ARA--------------------------When an emergency situation arises, and every second of time becomes precious, does anyone really have the time or patience to listen to a warning like "Be careful, this could be a cyber crime..."?

242 lives are lost in 38 seconds - this is not a figment of imagination, but a horrifying reality which we recently saw through a plane crash. The question arises that if there was a need to call someone in those moments, would this "mandatory warning system" of our communication system be helpful or a hindrance?

Before making a telephone call in the country, a warning message is now played compulsorily - this message advising to avoid cyber fraud, on which a warning is given in the voice of Amitabh Bachchan. The intention is noble, but is it necessary to make it heard every time, on every call, in every situation?

When someone is suffering a heart attack, bleeding on the street, or needing help from a burning plane – this 30-second constraint becomes an invisible wall standing between a human life.

Consider, if a person calls 10 times a day, he has to listen to the same message every time. Not only is it a waste of time, it is also a sign of mental fatigue and technological disorganization. If the system becomes an obstacle instead of a source of trust, then its review becomes necessary.

It is not wrong to give a warning, but ignoring the context and making it an inevitable obstacle – this is the inhuman form of a technological system that is disconnected from human needs.

It becomes even more worrying when this warning on emergency numbers (such as 112, 108, 100) also wastes time.

Does a person need to listen to 'cautionary advice' before the system to save his life?

The government and the concerned departments have to understand that warnings are effective as long as they are helpful in life, and not a hindrance. The message is good, but the timing of the message is wrong. We now need a system to overcome such technical flaws where listening to the message is not a compulsion before saving lives. If no improvement is made, we may be saved from cyber crime, but this system will make our journey difficult, not easy, in the journey to reach the door of Yamraj.