To ensure cyber security for the country, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah has proclaimed several new initiatives. As part of the program, the ministry has decided to train 5,000 cyber commandos’, establish a web-based data registry, and introduce a portal to report cybercrime information.
The Home Minister was addressing the first Foundation Day commemoration of I4C (Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre) on Tuesday, in New Delhi. During his address, Shah also announced the foundation of CFMC (Cyber Fraud Mitigation Centre) in attendance with major banks, payment aggregators, financial intermediaries, IT intermediaries, telecom service providers, law enforcement agencies from Union and state territories, and others.
Under the CFMC, all agencies are tasked with collaborating to ensure prompt action against online financial crimes, exemplifying the concept of “cooperative federalism” in law enforcement.
The Home Minister also confirmed that the joint venture of seven cyber coordination teams has delivered satisfactory results in Mewat, Ahmedabad, Jamtara, Chandigarh, Hyderabad, Guwahati, and Visakhapatnam. Along with that, the cyber media initiative CyberDost under I4C has successfully executed an awareness campaign on multiple social media handles.
Shah advocates the necessity of a precise strategy to move together in the direction to achieve the goal.
The Samanvay Platform, a Joint Cybercrime Investigation Facilitation System, represents a significant step forward. This web-based module will act as a centralized portal, serving as a core repository for cybercrime data and facilitating data sharing, analytics, crime mapping, and enhanced cooperation and coordination.
'The Cyber Commandos' program is a specialized team of trained personnel established in states and UTs and CBI-like central police organizations to address cybersecurity threats. These trained cyber commandos are anticipated to support both central and state agencies in safeguarding the digital landscape.
A registry of suspects is being developed based on the NCRP (National Cybercrime Reporting Portal), which is collaborating with financial intermediaries and banks to boost fraud risk management potential in India’s financial ecosystem.
The Union Home Minister also noted that India commutes 46% of digital transactions across the globe which underscores the increase in internet users from 250M on March 31, 2014- 950M on March 31, 2024. He also pointed out that data consumption has surged nearly 78-fold to 20.27 GB from 0.26 GB, driven by increased download speeds and reduced costs.Top of Form
Also, he highlighted that the Digital India initiative has brought many services online, with digital transactions amounting to ₹20.64 lakh crore in 2024.
So far, the I4C has issued more than 600 advisories and blocked social media pages, websites, accounts, and mobile apps utilized by cybercriminals.
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