VARANASI: Head of the department of neurology, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Professor, Vijaya Nath Mishra, has sent a letter to Prime Minister Modi urging specially designed mobile phones for children with in-built safety applications so that they cannot surf objectionable sites. Mishra and his team recently developed apps that can block porn sites and also inform parents about their kids' activities.
"I have submitted the letter addressed to the PM to the BJP MLA from City North Ravindra Jaiswal and the in-charge of PM's parliamentary office Shiv Sharan Pathak at Ravindrapuri colony on Monday," Mishra told TOI adding that he requested to the PM for taking initiative regarding specially designed android mobile for children to be made by the mobile companies. These mobile phones should have in-built unwanted website blocker for these age groups.
"Such special mobile phones should also have in-built parental guide key, so that parents can be warned, whenever unwanted sites are opened by children. And these phone should also have restriction app for the suicidal games," he said adding that there should be separate mobile phones with exclusive features of children's interest and benefit.
Mishra and his team have also developed applications like 'Narad' and 'Har Har Mahadev' to protect the vulnerable groups from the obscenity of the web-world. While 'Narad' will report the parents and caution them about browsing history of unwanted web sites by their kids, the 'Har Har Mahadev' app will block porn and vulgar sites.
He claimed that the parents can keep close watch on the browsing activities of their children by downloading the application in their own devices to see if their children are surfing for objectionable sites on smart phones or desktop. It will also let the parents know if their children has fallen prey to the online Blue Whale challenge that often allegedly leads to suicide.
"We would gladly offer the apps developed by us for the interest of children," he said. A team of five web experts led by a computer analyst Ankit Srivastav has been working on the applications.
"I have submitted the letter addressed to the PM to the BJP MLA from City North Ravindra Jaiswal and the in-charge of PM's parliamentary office Shiv Sharan Pathak at Ravindrapuri colony on Monday," Mishra told TOI adding that he requested to the PM for taking initiative regarding specially designed android mobile for children to be made by the mobile companies. These mobile phones should have in-built unwanted website blocker for these age groups.
"Such special mobile phones should also have in-built parental guide key, so that parents can be warned, whenever unwanted sites are opened by children. And these phone should also have restriction app for the suicidal games," he said adding that there should be separate mobile phones with exclusive features of children's interest and benefit.
Mishra and his team have also developed applications like 'Narad' and 'Har Har Mahadev' to protect the vulnerable groups from the obscenity of the web-world. While 'Narad' will report the parents and caution them about browsing history of unwanted web sites by their kids, the 'Har Har Mahadev' app will block porn and vulgar sites.
He claimed that the parents can keep close watch on the browsing activities of their children by downloading the application in their own devices to see if their children are surfing for objectionable sites on smart phones or desktop. It will also let the parents know if their children has fallen prey to the online Blue Whale challenge that often allegedly leads to suicide.
"We would gladly offer the apps developed by us for the interest of children," he said. A team of five web experts led by a computer analyst Ankit Srivastav has been working on the applications.
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