Transforming Law for Cybercrime Prevention

The government will soon provide secure mobile phones to soldiers along the international borders and in naxal affected areas, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Mr Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary at an ASSOCHAM.“You would be surprised to know that even today our soldiers do not have a mobile phone, as such on a short-term period basis, we are planning to provide mobile phones to army personnel in the border areas and naxal affected zones so that they can keep in touch with their family via 3G mobile connection,” said Mr Chaudhary while inaugurating ‘8th International Security Summit,’ organised by The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM).

“The mobile phone would not be intercepted as we would be having the telephone exchange with us that can be carried by the battalion wherever it goes,” said Mr Chaudhary.

“I had recently met a delegation of US-based company that claimed to provide us with telephone exchange in a box and instantly start over 1,000 secure mobile phone connections specifically for army personnel,” he added.

The Minister further informed that he had recently met another delegation of US-based company providing blood testing equipment that could process blood samples in just a few minutes thereby saving invaluable time of the army personnel.

Highlighting the lack of a proper law aimed at cybercrime prevention in the country, Mr Chaudhary said, “We have started a judicial process to transform the law in accordance with the technological advancement.”

“We are fully prepared to thwart all types of security challenges, be it cybercrime for which we have constituted a high level committee of IT (informational technology) experts headed by Union Home Minister, Mr Rajnath Singh,” said the Minister. “Besides, we have also constituted a committee to combat the hackers.”

He also said that about 18 countries had signed MoU (memorandum of understanding) with Gujarat Forensic Sciences University at the recent DG Conference held at Kutch and the government had as such decided to develop it as the world forensic university.

“We are training judges and IPS officers in forensic lab, we will also make smart police stations,” said Mr Chaudhary.

Highlighting that India has been importing third-grade quality of AK-47 rifles, the Minister said that there is an urgent need to manufacture military security equipment indigenously be it the firearms, night vision cameras and others.

IndianBureaucracy.com wishes the initiative the very best.