{"id":3322,"date":"2025-12-03T10:43:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/03\/sanchar-saathi-govt-explains-why-it-withdrew-mandate-on-pre-installing-the-app\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T10:43:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:13:55","slug":"sanchar-saathi-govt-explains-why-it-withdrew-mandate-on-pre-installing-the-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/03\/sanchar-saathi-govt-explains-why-it-withdrew-mandate-on-pre-installing-the-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanchar Saathi: Govt explains why it withdrew mandate on pre-installing the app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Communications has reversed its decision to mandate the pre-installation of the Sanchar Saathi app on mobile devices. This move comes as the app has seen significant user adoption, with 1.4 crore downloads and a recent surge in registrations. The government emphasized the app&#8217;s role in cybersecurity and denied it being a surveillance tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Communications has reversed its decision to mandate the pre-installation of the Sanchar Saathi app on mobile devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}