Post offices to check mobile user''s ID

R Jai Krishna

CHENNAI: With the number of fake identification proofs being given for mobile connections and the telecom service providers finding it difficult to tackle this menace, the Government of India has now come up with a new scheme as a solution to this problem.

According to informed sources, the Indian Government is looking at asking post offices to validate the identification of the mobile subscriber, which can be used as an authentication system for the telecom service providers.

“The Department of Posts has been roped-in along with the Department of Telecommunications, both under the Ministry of IT and Communications, for identification and verification system for the end-users. As the postal department has a got wide-network and the postman or post-woman knows who lives where and for how long, and this itself is a good way of authenticating the veracity of a subscriber,” they said.

It is learnt that the post offices would be charging about Rs 30 for every identification system.

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