The Government of India has taken extensive steps to address cyber crimes, with initiatives including the establishment of the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) under the Ministry of Home Affairs. The National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (https://cybercrime.gov.in) enables the public to report cyber crimes, especially those against women and children. Financial frauds can also be reported through the Citizen Financial Cyber Fraud Reporting and Management System, which has saved over $526 million from more than 1.34 million complaints.
The government has launched a toll-free helpline, ‘1930,’ for assistance in lodging online cyber complaints. The National Cyber Forensic Laboratory (Investigation) in New Delhi provides early-stage cyber forensic assistance to investigating officers from states and union territories, having handled approximately 11,835 cyber crime cases.
The Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) platform, ‘CyTrain,’ developed under I4C, offers online courses on cyber crime investigation, forensics, and prosecution, with over 102,276 police officers registered and more than 79,904 certificates issued. Financial assistance is provided to states and union territories under the ‘Cyber Crime Prevention against Women and Children (CCPWC)’ Scheme, supporting the establishment of cyber forensic-cum-training laboratories and the training of law enforcement personnel, public prosecutors, and judicial officers. To date, cyber forensic-cum-training laboratories have been set up in 33 states and union territories, with over 24,600 personnel trained.
Weekly online peer-learning sessions for law enforcement agencies and CAPFs focus on cyber crime trends and countermeasures, with 98 sessions conducted so far. Residential training has been provided to more than 3,785 law enforcement personnel, judicial officers, public prosecutors, and forensic scientists.
This information was provided by Minister of State for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha.
