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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
