{"id":1313,"date":"2026-06-26T11:19:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T11:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2026-07-02T11:19:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:19:42","slug":"cell-broadcast-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/cell-broadcast-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell Broadcast System"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>Cell Broadcast System<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>News:<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The government has launched the <strong>Cell Broadcast System (CBS)<\/strong> to<strong> strengthen India\u2019s emergency communication systems and enhance public safety infrastructure<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CBS is an<strong> indigenous technology<\/strong> developed by the<strong> Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT)<\/strong> under the Department of Telecommunications, in collaboration with the<strong> National Disaster Management Authority <\/strong>and the<strong> Ministry of Home Affairs.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CBS offers <strong>precise geo-targeting capabilities,<\/strong> <strong>enabling alerts to be disseminated at the level of individual cell towers or clusters<\/strong>, while also <strong>allowing scalability to cover larger geographic areas<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It <strong>overcomes the limitations of traditional SMS-based systems<\/strong>, ensuring that critical information can be disseminated quickly and efficiently to large populations within targeted areas.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The system enables <strong>near real-time, multilingual alerts<\/strong> that provide critical time for protective action in disasters such as flash floods and gas leaks, reaching users within seconds without any queuing delays.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cell Broadcast System News:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-initiatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}