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Telangana has emerged arsenic the apical State successful India for recovering stolen and missing mobile phones, signaling 1,00,020 recoveries done the Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR) portal, according to the Crime Investigation Department (CID).
The CEIR strategy was developed by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to tackle mobile theft and forestall the usage of counterfeit devices. It is present afloat operational crossed each 780 constabulary stations successful Telangana, with CID Telangana acting arsenic the nodal bureau for implementation
On April 19, 2023, the CEIR portal was launched successful Telangana 226 days aft its instauration successful aviator States Karnataka, Maharashtra, Delhi and the North Eastern States connected September 5, 2022. Despite the precocious start, Telangana has overtaken each different States, recovering 1,00,020 mobile devices arsenic of October 16, 2025, mounting a nationalist benchmark successful mobile recovery.
According to the CEIR dashboard, Hyderabad commissionerate achieved the highest fig of recoveries with 14,965 devices traced and returned, followed by Warangal with 5,564, Kamareddy with 3,860, Rajanna Sircilla with 2,074, Jogulamba Gadwal with 1,998, and Suryapet with 2,267.
The CEIR portal has besides been integrated with the Telangana Police national portal (www.tspolice.gov.in), allowing citizens to study mislaid oregon stolen devices directly, oregon done www.ceir.gov.in. Officials said the strategy has been wide appreciated for its ratio and effectiveness successful retrieving devices.
