SIM Card New Rules: The government has made some changes in the mobile SIM rules. Let us know what effect this change in rules will have on Indian citizens and foreign citizens.
SIM Card New Rules: The government has once again made some changes in the mobile SIM rules. But this time these changes have been made not for the citizens of the country but for the foreign citizens coming from outside. Earlier, foreign citizens coming to India used to have a lot of trouble in buying a mobile SIM. But after the change in the rules for getting OTP, the foreign citizens coming will not have to face this problem. So let’s know what changes the government has made in the mobile rules.
Foreign citizens will benefit from this
The rules that the government has changed. Foreign citizens will get the most benefit from them. Now they will not have any problem while buying a mobile SIM. Now foreign citizens will be able to use Email for OTP.
According to the earlier rules, foreign citizens had to use the local number for OTP to get a SIM. But after the change in the rules, now you will be able to use email to get OTP. This will now end the hassle of local number.
EKYC made mandatory for citizens
The government has recently made changes in the rules for citizens to get SIM. The government has now made EKYC (Electronic Know Your Customer) mandatory in the process of getting SIM for local citizens. In EKYC, the identity and address of the user is electronically verified through Aadhaar authentication.
Actually, there were many scams going on regarding buying SIM, such as people did not even know and the fraudsters used to get SIM issued in their name and after this the SIM was used for wrong purposes. To stop such scams, the government has made EKYC mandatory.
