Basar rail station to get free Wi-Fi

Basar railway station is the first railway station to offer free Wi-Fi services for the benefit of the devotees and passengers who come here to have darshan of goddess Saraswathy at temple. 

It is said that after Secunderabad railway station, Basar railway station is the next one to offer free Wi-Fi services.      

The SCR which is presently in testing stage will launch free Wi-Fi services in three days. Basar village has recently achieved distinction of achieving first digital literacy village in Telangana.

The free Wi-Fi services will be available for the internet users in a 100 meters radius in and around the Basar railway station.

The South Central railway has selected the Basar railway station as it has become major pilgrimage centre in the South India and devotees from various places coming to have darshan of goddess Saraswati.

Basar is the only second temple of knowledge goddess after Jammu Kashmir. The Basar railway station has also in the centre of the Telangana and Maharashtra states and well connected with railway routes.               

Some of the enthusiasts of Basar town are already availing the free Wi-Fi services at the Basar Railway station for the last two days as the services are run on a trial basis.

Basar temple Executive Officer M. Venkateshwarlu said the free Wi-Fi services to be made available at Basar railway station will certainly helpful to the devotees and passengers to get the information online. He said they will start online booking for rooms, darshan ticket,  Abhishekam and Aksharabhyasam in three months.

“Already we have started online donations though SBH, said Venkateshwarlu adding that the number of devotees visiting the temple is increasing especially during special occasion like Vasantha Panchamy. 

Basar Railway station master Gangadhar said efforts are being made to make the free WI-Fi services available officially in three days.

No mechanism to tackle online fraud at districts

No mechanism was in place to tackle online fraud in the police department at district level except creating awareness among the people how to avoid such frauds in Telangana.

Different kind of online frauds were reported including phone calls including winning lottery, gold and online solutions to various problems, being  selected for rewards and asking the candidates to deposit money as processing fee to claim the lottery or other rewards they won.    

The police department is facing difficulty in bringing the fraudsters to book though their phone numbers and whereabouts were traced out and it was found that most of them are from other states and even from other countries.

In August, Vemula Rajaguruvaiah of Itikyala village in Luxettipet mandal of Adilabad district was cheated for Rs 22,999 from his SBH bank account. He lodged a complaint with the local police stating that on unknown person who collected details of his bank ATM card had purchased one item from online shopping site ‘Flipkart’. On August 18, he received the call which asked for ATM card details on  the pretext on ATM renewal.

On condition anonymity, a police officer said they have to bear more expenditure than the amount involved in actual fraud for sending a police team to bring back the accused to district even if they traced the whereabouts of the persons indulged in online frauds.

‘It would be good to create awareness among the people about online frauds and how to avoid them instead of wasting time and huge money on the investigation', said an officer.

Nearly 10 online frauds were reported and many more were unreported as victims did not want to complaint to the police in the last one year in the Adilabad district.

The online frauds are on the rise since e-commerce has become popular and fraudsters have started using these e-commerce sites as a tool cheating the people by indulging in frauds with purchasing items online. The amount for purchased items was being deducted from the bank accounts of the victims without their knowledge.

In most of the online fraud cases, fraudsters collected details of bank accounts and their ATM pin code posing themselves as bank staff. 

Self styled ‘God man’(Baba) took the ‘online’ mode following the trend among the people and cheated gullible woman in the name of offering ‘online services’ of curing people suffering from various ailments.

Few months ago, a self styled Mirja Baba who claimed as a native of Rajastan has collected Rs 5 lakh in one month from a gullible married woman Madasu Mounika of Narsingapur village in Mancherial mandal to cure her family members suffering from various ailments suspected.