DGT R K Goyal Urges Collective Effort for Cyber-Safe Digital Ecosystem

• Director General Telecom R K Goyal emphasized the need for collective efforts from all stakeholders to create a cyber-safe and trusted digital ecosystem.
• The statement was made at the annual South Zone conference on security-related matters, organized by the Kerala LSA of DoT.
• India has achieved the world's fastest rollout of 5G services, now available in 776 of 777 districts, with mobile services among the cheapest globally.
• DoT developed the Digital Intelligence Platform (DIP) using AI and facial recognition to combat financial fraud and the Sanchar Saathi portal for citizen services.
• Over 5 crore suspicious mobile connections disconnected, 8.5 lakh handsets recovered, and Financial Fraud Risk Indicators (FRI) introduced to prevent fraud.