Lost your phone? Sit back and relax while the government finds it for you

Now if your mobile phone is lost, all you have to do is sit back and relax while the government finds it for you.

If you wonder how, then here’s a new portal, launching today by union telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, to report the theft of phones.

Since 2007, the department of telecommunications has been working on the Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR), a database of IMEIs (International Mobile Equipment Identity), the 15-digit unique number that identifies mobile devices.