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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS
DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS
RAJYA SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 649
TO BE ANSWERED ON 05TH FEBRUARY, 2026
DIGITAL INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM
649 SHRI KESRIDEVSINH JHALA:
DR. MEDHA VISHRAM KULKARNI:
SHRI MAYANKKUMAR NAYAK:
Will the Minister of Communications be pleased to state:
(a) the number of stakeholder organisations onboarded on the Digital Intelligence Platform (DIP)
since its operationalisation;
(b) the volume and nature of intelligence inputs shared through DIP during the last two years and
the actions taken thereon to curb misuse of telecom resources;
(c) whether any performance or impact assessment of DIP has been conducted in terms of fraud
prevention and inter-agency response time; and
(d) if so, the details thereof?
ANSWER
MINISTER OF STATE FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
(DR. PEMMASANI CHANDRA SEKHAR)
(a) The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has established Digital Intelligence Platform
(DIP) for bi-directional information sharing with stakeholders for prevention of misuse of telecom
resources in cyber-crimes and financial frauds. More than 1200 organizations have been on-boarded
on DIP including central security agencies, 36 State/UT Police, Indian Cyber Crime Coordination
Centre (I4C), 1100 Banks, Unified Payments Interface (UPI) service providers, Payment System
Operators (PSOs), Telecom Service Providers (TSPs), WhatsApp etc.
(b) DIP is a secure online platform that hosts the list of disconnected mobile numbers, known as
Mobile Number Revocation List (MNRL), along with the reasons & date of disconnection and
Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI) which is a risk-based metric that classifies a mobile number to
have been associated with medium, high, or very high risk of financial frauds. Till date 14 crore
mobile numbers, as part of MNRL and 18 lakh mobile numbers, as part of FRI, have been shared
with the stakeholders through DIP.
(c) & (d) Based on the information shared on DIP, stakeholders initiate necessary action as per
their analysis on the associated accounts /profiles in their respective domain. As reported by
stakeholders, total fraud amount prevented through FRI is more than ₹1000 crores based on
transaction decline and alert/notifications given to citizens. Further, WhatsApp has disengaged 28
lakh profiles/accounts associated with shared mobile numbers.
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