Centre govt.’s CEIR project proving useful in tracing lost mobile phones
Centre govt.’s CEIR project proving useful in tracing lost mobile phones
New Delhi, March 25 (Delhi Crown): As many as 1,69,667 people had made complaints regarding their lost mobile phones over the past few months, out of which traceability data for 1,10,239 such mobile phones had been made to the Delhi Police by the Union Ministry of Communications with the help of Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR) project, said a minister in the Modi cabinet on Friday.
The CEIR project was launched in recent months in Delhi, Mumbai and Maharashtra’s licensed service areas (LSAs) in a phased manner to facilitate blocking and tracing of lost and stolen mobile phones.
As per the reports from CEIR system, requests for blocking 8,315 and 11,848 International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) have been received till March 20 for Mumbai and Maharashtra LSAs, respectively.
The traceability data for 4,586 and 8,317 IMEIs have been made available to police of Mumbai and Maharashtra, respectively, to facilitate the recovery of mobile phones handsets, said Minister of State for Communications Devusinh Chauhan in Rajya Sabha on Friday.
The CEIR is a multi-stakeholder system where respective stakeholders, including Department of Telecommunications, Telecom Service Providers, Police, Mobile phone manufacturers and mobile phone subscribers have a limited access as per their defined roles and responsibilities.
Currently, this includes the information to the subscriber about the make and model corresponding to IMEI of his/her mobile handset, information to mobile phone manufacturers about genuineness of IMEI during import of consignment of mobile phones etc.
