New Delhi: Striving to make the society a secure place for women, the police administration will be integrating SoS systems in mobile phone. The mobile phone network will be able to trace distress calls in the shortest possible time, informed Finance Minister P Chidambaram said on Monday December 16.

He also noted that GPS systems will be installed in public transports and  the scheme will be launched in 157 cities in two phases at an estimated cost of Rs 1,000 crore.

Giving details of the scheme, Chidambaram said, “Instructions will be issued by the Ministry of Information Technology to all mobile phone manufacturers to introduce  mandatorily, SoS alert button in handsets. The manufacturers will also be instructed to install SoS alert system in the existing handsets through free downloading of suitable software.”