Announcing the launch, Mr. Saurabh Goel, Chief Operating Officer, Bharti Airtel said, “With over 1.7 crore mobile customers - Bharti Airtel has the widest reach across Karnataka, a large share of which comes from the rural part of the state. Airtel, today through it's mobile platform is well positioned to enrich the lives of the citizens of Karnataka. The launch of ‘Nemmadi Jeevana’ is in line with Airtel’s continued efforts towards delivering services that are innovative, relevant and affordable for our customers. We are confident that this unique service will deliver valuable insights for farming and allied communities, thus empowering the masses leading to economic development of the state.”
The ‘Nemmadi Jeevana’ service will leverage the simple and easy-to-use Interactive Voice Response (IVR) medium to communicate key information to subscribers, thus allowing them to leverage their mobile phones to plan their businesses and lead better lives.
Announcing the association, Mr. Praveen Rajpal, CEO, Handygo Technologies, said, “At Handygo we want to empower the rural segment through partnership with government organizations and NGOs helping them to reap the benefits of mobile telephony reducing the dependency of rural masses on agents for most basic information related to Agriculture, Commodity Prices, and Weather Forecast, Information on Inland Fisheries, Livestock, Health, Rural Finance and Education. Nemmadi Jeevana is a strong tool which has and will revolutionize both the generation and the delivery of information anytime anywhere. We are delighted to work with Airtel to deliver end-to-end solutions through Nemmadi Jeevana in the field of m-banking, m-education, m-governance and others as well.”
To educate and sensitize Gram Panchayats on ‘Nemmadi Jeevana’, Airtel and Handygo experts will be conducting a mass awareness drive including mobile vans that will reach out to potential customers all across the state. These sessions will be aimed at educating potential customers on the service’s usage and scope towards enhancement of their yield, production etc. The service will be promoted at various touch points including agricultural & rural fairs, farmer’s exhibitions, van promotions, contests, associations with local NGOs, announcements through community radio, distribution of free physical coupons etc.
The ‘Nemmadi Jeevana’ service is available for farmers 24x7 and 365 days of the year. To use this service, Airtel mobile customers can dial 556780 (toll free) and avail the subscription pack at a charge of Rs 30 for 30 days. As a first-of-its-kind in the Indian telecom industry, this service supports a wide range of dialects and is available in Kannada and 17 other regional languages.
‘Nemmadi Jeevana’ has been developed after a detailed research around the farming community and keeps in mind the information gap that currently exists in this segment. To launch this initiative, Airtel joined hands with Handygo to bridge the gap between static and dynamic information. To ensure A-grade quality information, we worked with various private and government bodies (including Indian Meteorological Dept, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, CARE, CAB International and International tractors Ltd) to collate relevant information and organize its dissemination to farmers using region interactive voice as medium supported by voice and text messages.
About Bharti Airtel
Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa. Headquartered in New Delhi, India, the company ranks amongst the top 5 mobile service providers globally in terms of subscribers. In India, the company's product offerings include 2G, 3G and 4G services, fixed line, high speed broadband through DSL, IPTV, DTH, enterprise services including national & international long distance services to carriers. In the rest of the geographies, it offers 2G, 3G mobile services. Bharti Airtel had over 262 million customers across its operations at the end of July 2012. To know more please visit, www.airtel.com
About Handygo Technologies Pvt. Ltd
Handygo is a leading wireless solution provider of Mobile entertainment and Value Added Services. With “market presence of over a decade ”, the company is offering new VAS Content spreading across IVR, SMS & WAP platforms of all leading telcos in India & Middle East. The company has plethora of mobile solutions in the domains of rural, health, education and entertainment. The solutions and products of the company empower not only almost all the major communication service providers but also the Greenfield operators.
