Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), the premier Telecom R&D centre of the Government of India, has been conferred the  “SKOCH Award-2025” for its Cell Broadcast Solution (CBS). The award ceremony was held as part of the 104th SKOCH Summit on the theme “Resourcing Viksit Bharat”. 

The SKOCH Award goes to individuals, projects, and institutions both government and & private, across India for outstanding work in improving governance and development, recognizing excellence in sectors like finance, tech, health, education, and grassroots work, essentially honouring those making significant, positive impact on citizens and the nation.  

This unified platform provides  end-to-end solutions for delivery of near real time life-saving emergency information in affected area to mobile phones through cellular networks.

This indigenous, cost effective and fully automated system has enabled geo-targeted, multi-hazard alerting with multi lingual (21 languages) support, improving overall efficiency of disaster risk reduction & management activities.

The initiative aligns with United Nations  initiative   of Early Warnings for All (#EW4All), International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU’s) – Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), ‘Call to Action’ and promotes United Nations SDGs (Susatinable Development Goal) while enhancing country’s capacity building efforts towards disaster resilience.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr Rajkumar Upadhyay, CEO, C-DOT, said, "We are honoured to win the prestigious SKOCH Award 2025, it is a meaningful recognition of C-DOT’s mission to place technology at the service of citizens, which can reach even the remotest and vulnerable regions  of the country.

Our Cell Broadcast Solution strengthens public safety system by enabling geo-targeted timely dissemination of information to citizens affected by disasters.