‘ROLE OF CELLULAR PHONE IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA’

Abstract

According to Census report 2011 nearly 70 per cent of the India’s population lives in rural areas. Out of 121 crore population, 83.3 crore live in rural areas while 37.7 crore stay in urban areas. Development of rural people will only lead to the real development of India. Nowadays cellular phone is playing a vital role in solving people problems like monitoring of crops, reaching out to potential markets, from last mile delivery of government and private services to addressing domestic violence issues ingeniously, mobile phones are being used in a host of ways to uplift and empower rural India. Think for a need you will have an app for that need. The smartphones are loaded with the apps. The apps plays very important role in helping rural and urban people.
World is looking India as a centre of big mobile phone market. Technologies in mobile phone are upgrading every instance all across the globe. Everyday new research and development taking place around the world in the field of mobile phone. Mobile phone is a very essential technology not only in Urban but also in rural areas.
More than 850 million active mobile subscribers in India, the next growth segment is rural areas, believed by mobile app developers, and the key to success is innovation. Translating
human needs into effective tools paves the way for a host of apps that are expected to debut on your handsets soon: Helping farmers remotely control motors, teach new languages and even narrate bedtime stories to children in local languages are some of the targets of mobile app developers.
The rapid technological growth makes ease of use and the falling call rate, cost of mobile phones and user friendly tool makes the mobile in reach of common men. Cellular device ownership is increasing very rapidly in India.
This paper explores the role of smart phone in rural development in the country.

World is looking India as a centre of big mobile phone market. Technologies in mobile phone are upgrading every instance all across the globe. Everyday new research and development taking place around the world in the field of mobile phone. Mobile phone is a very essential technology not only in Urban but also in rural areas.

More than 850 million active mobile subscribers in India, the next growth segment is rural areas, believed by mobile app developers, and the key to success is innovation. Translating human needs into effective tools paves the way for a host of apps that are expected to debut on your handsets soon: Helping farmers remotely control motors, teach new languages and even narrate bedtime stories to children in local languages are some of the targets of mobile app developers.

The rapid technological growth makes ease of use and the falling call rate, cost of mobile phones and user friendly tool makes the mobile in reach of common men. Cellular device ownership is increasing very rapidly in India.

This paper explores the role of smart phone in rural development in the country.