Sanchar Mitra Scheme

About Sanchar Mitra Scheme

• It envisions engaging the Yuva Shakti- India’s youth, as catalysts for digital empowerment and societal outreach.
• It is aimed at harnessing the energy and potential of young students to spread awareness about safe digital behaviour.
• Working
  • Under this scheme, student volunteers, named as Sanchar Mitra, will raise public awareness about mobile safety, telecom fraud prevention, and government digital initiatives. 
  • They will conduct outreach in communities, schools, and public spaces to educate citizens on responsible and secure use of telecom services.
  • It is open to students from those technical institutes that have active telecom, electronics, computers, cybersecurity, or similar programs and have agreed to participate in the scheme.
  • Sanchar Mitras will receive necessary training from experts and from the National Communications Academy-Technology (NCA-T). 
  • The Sanchar Mitras will receive various training on subjects like cybersecurity, emerging technologies in the telecom sector, telecom policies and regulations, etc. 
• The scheme offers top performers
  • Access, on a best-effort basis, to research and development (R&D) projects and telecom start-ups;
  • Involvement in policy and standards work;
  • Participation in field surveys and DoT initiatives;
  • Exposure to national conferences and events. 
• The scheme has been implemented across all states/UTs through the licensed service area (LSA) field offices of DoT.
• Nodal Ministry: Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Ministry of Communications.

Source: PIB

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