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No More Crummy Challan Books

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Inspector Shankerappa is at the busiest traffic junction in

Bangalore, armed with a Blackberry and Bluetooth printer. He simply enters the

Driver's License number of the traffic violator and can view an entire case

history (if any) on the Blackberry screen. Within seconds Inspector Shankerappa

prints the challan on a Bluetooth enabled portable printer, and hands it over to

the lawbreaker. Every action is recorded in servers with the help of Airtel's

GPRS/EDGE technology.

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Around 280 traffic police officers across the city have been

provided Blackberrys to combat traffic woes. It's part of the state

government's initiative to set up the Bangalore Transport Information System (BTIS)-a

Rs 350-crore project to tackle traffic woes. It has tied up with telecom

operator Bharti Airtel, map provider Mapunity Information Services, and mobile

application developer TeliBrahma Convergent Communications for the purpose.

Photo: Sujith Sujan

Malovika Rao



malovikar@cybermedia.co.in

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