About Sanchar Mitra Scheme:
- It is a youth-oriented initiative by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Ministry of Communications.
- It is aimed at harnessing the energy and potential of young students to spread awareness about safe digital behaviour.
- 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.
- This scheme 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.
- Recognition and incentives will be coordinated through DoT units, leveraging existing resources and partnerships.
- The scheme has been implemented across all states/UTs through the licensed service area (LSA) field offices of DoT.
