Delhi | Union Minister for Communications, Railways, Electronics & IT Ashwini Vaishnaw launches Sanchar Saathi Portal

Under PM Modi’s vision for Telecom user’s safety we have launched Sanchar Saathi Portal under which there are three reforms for telecom users’ safety that will help protect a user’s digital identity. These reforms perfectly fit the PM’s vision to benchmark India’s telecom sector globally: Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw

The first reform is the Centralised Equipment Identity Register (CEIR) which helps block, track and trace a mobile phone if it is lost or stolen. If the SIM card is removed and a new SIM card is inserted still the phone can be blocked. The CEIR will help keep phone data and personal belongings safe: Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw

The second reform is Know Your Mobile. The consumer will get the facility to know how many SIM cards are there in their name, and what kind of documents have been attached. Now you can know that and turn it off as the phone numbers are connected with KYC. This will be done with an AI algorithm: Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw

The third reform is the 'Astra' an all AI-based framework to prevent cases where a fraudster takes multiple connections using different identities. Till now over forty thousand Point of Sale (POS) systems that were supporting these fraudsters have been blacklisted with Astra. With the help of Astra, 87 crore connections were traced through it. About 40 lakh connections were found fake, & 36 lakh connections have been closed following a detailed procedure. In two cases it was found that one person has taken 5200 connections & the other has taken 6900 connections: Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw