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The Telangana Cyber Security Bureau (TGCSB) connected Tuesday launched a six-week Statewide cyber consciousness campaign, Fraud Ka Full Stop, aimed astatine preventing cyber fraud and equipping citizens with applicable integer information skills.
The programme was inaugurated astatine the Integrated Command and Control Centre successful Banjara Hills successful the beingness of elder constabulary leadership, officials from spouse departments, students, slope representatives and citizens.
Speaking astatine the launch, TGCSB Director Shikha Goel said that the Bureau has handled 2.44 lakh National Cybercrime Reporting Portal (NCRP) complaints, registered 58,244 FIRs and facilitated the refund of much than ₹350 crore to victims.
She noted that portion cybercrime nationally accrued by 29%, Telangana recorded an 8% decline, and fiscal losses dropped by 30% compared with the nationalist fig of 6%. She attributed the betterment to reforms specified arsenic strengthening the 1930 helpline, enhancing the ‘put connected hold’ mechanism, and processing a exemplary refund strategy with the enactment of the High Court.
Ms. Goel described the run arsenic a people-centric question combining on-ground outreach with extended integer engagement. Each week of the run focuses connected a circumstantial theme, including reporting to 1930, ‘digital arrest’ fraud, concern scams, hacking threats, individuality theft, and online information for women and children. The run volition see workshops and seminars, flash mobs, cyber information walks, rallies, thoroughfare plays, pledge drives, unrecorded online interactions and regular information tips among others.
She urged citizens to follow cyber information arsenic a regular wont and enactment actively successful consciousness drives.
Director General of Police (DGP) Shivadhar Reddy, who presided implicit the lawsuit arsenic main guest, said cybercrime indispensable beryllium treated arsenic a “core policing priority” crossed each units. He referred to the Chief Minister’s instructions connected strengthening cybercrime power and directed officers astatine territory and constabulary presumption levels to behaviour intensive consciousness programmes passim the campaign. He stressed the request to amended citizens connected patterns specified arsenic ‘digital arrest’, concern fraud, indebtedness app harassment, impersonation and societal media extortion.
The motorboat besides introduced SPARC Cyber Clubs (Student Program for Awareness and Responsible Cyberspace) successful schools and colleges to promote students to enactment arsenic cyber ambassadors, arsenic good arsenic SBI Cyber Defenders aimed astatine improving preventive vigilance among slope unit and susceptible customers.
A bid of run materials, including posters, songs, jingles and consciousness films, were released astatine the event. The TGCSB aims to scope astatine slightest 5 lakh citizens straight done carnal events, with galore much expected to beryllium engaged done integer and accepted media.
Senior officers from the State, including the tri-commissionerate of Hyderabad, Cyberabad and Rachakonda attended the programme.
The TGCSB urged radical to stay vigilant, debar suspicious links and fiscal offers, and study cyber fraud instantly to 1930 oregon via www.cybercrime.gov.in. The Telangana Police reiterated their committedness to gathering a cyber-resilient State wherever citizens are empowered to safeguard themselves successful the integer space.
