The Government earlier mandated the Sanchar Saathi app on smartphones to improve cybersecurity and allow citizens to report fraud. With 1.4 crore downloads, the government on Wednesday notified the decision to make pre-installation optional for mobile manufacturers.

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The Ministry of Communications, in a statement issued on Wednesday, December 3, noted –

It helps in " Jan bhagidari" by all citizens in reporting on such bad actors and actions while protecting users themselves. There is no other function other than protecting the users in the app and they can remove the app whenever they want. This has been clarified by Government.

So far 1.4 crore users have downloaded this app and are contributing to information on 2000 fraud incidents per day. The number o

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