{"id":199425,"date":"2025-10-03T12:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/199425\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T12:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:08:09","slug":"sanchar-saathi-brings-lost-mobiles-back-to-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/199425\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanchar Saathi brings lost mobiles back to families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technology with a human touch<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cBlock Your Lost\/Stolen Mobile Handset\u201d feature integrates telecom providers, state police forces, and DoT in real time. The moment someone tries <a href=\"https:\/\/gulfnews.com\/opinion\/op-eds\/will-the-barbie-phone-help-reduce-smartphone-addiction-among-children-1.1724854433417\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to use a stolen phone with a new SIM card<\/a>, an alert is triggered \u2014 sent both to the owner and the local police station. That single alert often leads to the recovery of a device that could otherwise have vanished into India\u2019s vast second-hand mobile market.<\/p>\n<p>At a glance: Sanchar Saathi milestone<\/p>\n<p>6 lakh+ phones recovered through the DoT\u2019s platform.<\/p>\n<p>1 phone every minute traced and returned.<\/p>\n<p>Recoveries jumped 61% from January (28,115) to August 2025 (45,243).<\/p>\n<p>Alerts sent to citizens + local police the moment a stolen device is used.<\/p>\n<p>Initiative hailed as restoring \u201cdigital security for Indian families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gulfnews.com\/author\/stephen-n-r\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/gulfnews\/2025-05-15\/lxugegpt\/Stephen_N_R__pic.jpg\"  alt=\"Stephen N R\" class=\"qt-image\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Senior Associate Editor with more than 30 years in the media, Stephen N.R. curates, edits and publishes impactful stories for Gulf News \u2014 both in print and online \u2014 focusing on Middle East politics, student issues and explainers on global topics. <\/p>\n<p>Stephen has spent most of his career in journalism, working behind the scenes \u2014 shaping headlines, editing copy and putting together newspaper pages with precision.  <\/p>\n<p>For the past many years, he has brought that same dedication to the Gulf News digital team, where he curates stories, crafts explainers and helps keep both the web and print editions sharp and engaging. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Technology with a human touch The \u201cBlock Your Lost\/Stolen Mobile Handset\u201d feature integrates telecom providers, state police forces,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2344,165,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-199425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-india","9":"tag-mobile","10":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}