RCOM launches educational portal
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09/04/2008
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Central Chronicle (Bhopal)
Bhopal, Apr 9: In a trail-blazing initiative, Reliance Communications, India's foremost truly integrated telecommunications service provider has announced today the launch of an exclusive educational portal on Reliance mobile phones. This unique portal offers a bouquet of useful information on exam results, college admissions, event calendar of exams, admission deadlines, mock tests and tips for performing well in exams. It also contains the list of top universities, colleges, secondary education boards as well as career options. While the educational portal is an IVR based service, it also offers SMS alerts on subscription for exam preparation, performance and even tips for de-stressing to enhance performance during exams. The service will be made available to both prepaid and post paid subscribers. The RCOM's comprehensive educational portal is a one-stop shop for all the essential educational requirements of students and their parents. Thus it saves time, tedious effort and anxiety as everything the student community wants is readily available at the click of a button. The application is quite simple and user-friendly. Users have to simply call 53030101 (Exam Guru) and they will be guided by an IVR instructing them to press 1 for exams and admission, 2 for information on top colleges and universities in the country, 3 for career options, 4 for Board Exams and 5 for SMS based subscription. These services can be accessed at a reduced rate of Rs 1 per minute for which the user will have to subscribe to the 'Exam Guru' pack which is priced at Rs 10 with a validity of 10 days. These services are also available to the users at a very nominal rate of Rs 3 per minute by simply dialing 53030303 in case they have not subscribed to the pack. Speaking on the launch, Krishna Durbha, Head of Value Added Services (VAS)-Sales and Marketing, Reliance Communications said, "Thrust toward education is RCOM's contribution to take VAS beyond just entertainment. We have the reach now into millions of Indians and want to provide services critical to their daily lives. Education being the key aspiration and need for most Indians, we decided to use technology to advantage. Exam Results which were pioneered by RCOM about five years ago revolutionized the way Indian students got access to results in their tense moments. The attempt is to provide not only exam results but also help students find the right course, seek admissions and provide all educational related information." Students and their parents can access exam results available on this educational portal of various Educational Boards instantly on their mobile phones any time, anywhere in India. Over 100 Exam Results are scheduled to be displayed on Reliance Mobile World's application suite 'Exam Results' with Haryana Board's-subject to Haryana Board Policy- is slated for mid April (Reliance Mobile World Exam Results). RCOM's subscribers can also access the results via SMS. They can send an SMS message specifying their Haryana Board Roll Number along with the keyword (HB8 for 8th Standard and HB10 for standard 10th) to 53030 and will receive a return message with the exam results. The whole process is completed in less than a minute. 1000 craftsmen trained