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Govt rescinds Sanchar Saathi pre-installation mandate
The Statesman
|December 04, 2025
Following widespread protests, including by the Opposition parties, the government has decided not to make pre-installation of the Sanchar Saathi app mandatory for mobile manufacturers.
The Ministry of Communications made this announcement on Wednesday, hours after Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia rejected in Parliament the Opposition's charge that the app could be used for snooping on citizens.
The Ministry, however, claimed that the app is secure and purely meant to protect citizens from bad actors in the cyber world. It said the government, with an intent to provide access to cyber security to all citizens, had mandated pre-installation of the Sanchar Saathi app on all smartphones.
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