Government of India allows an individual to own up to 9 SIMs in their name. But rapid increase in the number of smartphone users in India has also increase the sale of SIM cards.
Most of us today own more than two SIM cards and this has also increase the instances of SIM card-related scams and frauds.
If you want to check how many SIM cards are register under your name, Government of India’s Sanchar Saathi portal has a tool that lets you check the number of SIM cards link to your Aadhaar.
How to Know the Number of SIM Cards Issued by Your Name?
Follow These Steps :
- Open the internet browser and search for ‘Sanchar Saathi’ portal.
- On the page that appears, you will be ask to type your mobile number and enter a captcha.
- When done, click on the ‘Validate Captcha’ and you will receive an OTP.
- Enter it in the OTP field and tap on the ‘Login’ button.
NOTE :
- You can report unauthorized SIMs purchase under your name from the portal.
- On the ‘Sanchar Saathi’ portal, you can see the mobile numbers that are active under your name.
- If you find a number that looks suspicious, you can report it by clicking on the tick box to the left, choose the ‘Not My Number’ option and proceed to click on the ‘Report’ button below.
- Doing so will notify the Department of Telecommunication that the number is not yours, following which the government might stop services for that particular number.
- In case you no longer require a particular connection, choosing the ‘Not required’ option will do the trick.
- You can also choose the ‘Required’ option and hit on the ‘Report’ button to tell the government that you are actively using the mobile numbers.
As of now, telecom providers don’t need to maintain a detail list of dealers selling SIM cards, which might be the reason why India has witness a surge in the number of cases surrounding SIM cards register under fake identities.
To crack down on this problem, the Department of Telecom (DoT) discontinue the bulk sale of mobile connections and said dealers need to register with telecom operators within a year if they want to continue selling SIMs.
Telecom minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that since the launch of the ‘Sanchar Saathi’ portal, Government of India has crack on 52 lakh mobile numbers that were obtain using forged documents.
