TRAI on Wednesday stood by its proposal of a sunset date for making GPS mandatory in all handsets, which can help find out <g data-gr-id="14">exact</g> location of the caller in an emergency. The proposal was rejected by the Department of Telecom (DoT), saying there is a major percentage of low-cost handsets with subscribers which do not support GPS and the impact of enabling all mobile phone handsets with GPS may be studied before taking a call on the issue. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in April came out with recommendations on making 112 as the single emergency number.
TRAI proposed <g data-gr-id="10">implementation</g> of public safety answering point (PSAP) based integrated emergency communication and response system (IECRS) in the country, which will be accessed through a single emergency number 112.