Sanchar Saathi Portal Crosses 30 Crore Visits Against Telecom Fraud

The correct answer is 5,000 crore rupees. The Financial Fraud Risk Indicator, built partly from what citizens report on Sanchar Saathi, provides risk-based intelligence on mobile numbers that may be linked to financial fraud, and the ministry credits it with preventing suspected losses of more than 5,000 crore rupees. The intelligence is shared through the Digital Intelligence Platform with banks, payment service providers, telecom operators and law enforcement agencies, who build it into their transaction monitoring so that a suspicious payment can be stopped before the money leaves an account. Options A, B and D are figures that do not appear in the statement. Candidates should keep the two abbreviations apart: the Financial Fraud Risk Indicator is the risk signal itself, while the Digital Intelligence Platform is the channel that carries it to more than 1,600 connected stakeholders.

The correct answer is Chakshu. It is the reporting facility on Sanchar Saathi through which a citizen can flag suspicious calls, SMS or WhatsApp messages, including fake KYC and bill-payment alerts, people impersonating government, police or bank officials, and fraudulent investment, job or loan offers. Chakshu has received 12.80 lakh inputs, which led to action in 59.82 lakh cases and the disconnection of more than 50 lakh mobile connections. Option B, Trusted Contact Details, is a different service that lets a user verify the genuine customer care numbers, email addresses and website links of banks and financial institutions. Option C, the Digital Intelligence Platform, is not a citizen-facing service at all but the secure channel that carries fraud intelligence to banks and the police. Option D, Keep Yourself Aware, is the awareness section on prevailing fraud trends such as fake loan apps and fake traffic challans.

The correct answer is 60.96 lakh. The Sanchar Saathi dashboard shows that 60.96 lakh lost or stolen handsets have been blocked across the networks of all telecom operators, that 37.85 lakh of them were traced, and that more than 14 lakh have actually been recovered and returned to their owners. Option A, 37.85 lakh, is the number traced rather than blocked, which makes it the sharpest distractor in the set, so the three stages of blocked, traced and recovered must be learnt in that order. Options B and D are invented figures. The process works like this: once a handset is reported and blocked it cannot be used anywhere in India, and any attempt to use it generates traceability information that is passed to the police, with recovery following from coordination between the department, telecom service providers and state police authorities.

The correct answer is 21. The Sanchar Saathi mobile application is offered in English, Hindi and 21 regional languages, so that a user anywhere in the country can reach the same services in a language of their own, and its total downloads have crossed 2.8 crore. Options A, B and D are plausible but incorrect, and candidates often confuse this count with the number of languages listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, which is a separate matter entirely. The multilingual app sits alongside the portal, which carries public dashboards and awareness material on telecom safety and fraud prevention. Remember the pairing of the app languages with the download figure, and keep both apart from the portal statistics such as the 30 crore visits recorded since the launch in May 2023.