Port Blair, Oct. 6: On the occasion of Cyber Jagrookta Diwas (6th October), Admiral D.K. Joshi, PVSM, YSM, NM, VSM (Retd.), Hon’ble Lieutenant Governor of A&N Islands & Vice Chairman, Islands Development Agency released IEC (Information, Education and Communication) material including short videos and pamphlets on cyber safety and cyber hygiene in the presence of Sh. Keshav Chandra, IAS Chief Secretary, Sh. Neeraj Thakur, IPS, DGP, Dr. RSC Jayaraj, IFoS, PCCF, Smt. Pramila Kumari , Adhyaksha, Zilla Parishad, Smt. Kavitha Udhaya Kumar, Chairperson, PBMC and other senior officers of A&N Islands at Raj Niwas, Port Blair.
Lauding the efforts of A&N Police in spreading mass public awareness against cyber frauds, Hon’ble LG in his address appreciated the initiative of in-house designing of informative and educative IEC material including pamphlets, slide shows and short videos to explain the various modus operandi of cyber fraud and precautionary measures in a ‘simple and easy to understand’ manner. HLG desired that considering the magnitude of cyber frauds, Police in collaboration with IT professionals should brainstorm and come out with technology based solutions to effectively curb the activities of cyber-fraudsters. Hon’ble LG also emphasized the need for effective detection, investigation and prosecution of cyber-crimes. He extended his best wishes to the citizens of the Islands and to Andaman & Nicobar Police in their joint endeavour through “Cyber Jagrookta Diwas” to create a secure and safe cyber ecosystem.
Elaborating on the release of IEC material, Sh. S. K. Jain, IPS, IGP/L&O emphasized that acting on the principles that ‘Knowledge is power’ and ‘Awareness is a key to empowerment’, Andaman & Nicobar Police has prepared short videos and pamphlets to reach out to people at large and to sensitize them about cyber scams and how to avoid becoming victims of cyber fraud. This IEC material would help in disseminating the message of cyber safety and cyber hygiene such as Do’s and Don’ts, Safe internet banking, Online shopping fraud prevention, Social media safety precautions, Cyber Bullying etc. The IGP highlighted that right from story line, acting, shooting to editing of videos, everything in the videos has been done in-house by police staff of A&N Police. Similarly, all pamphlets have been designed and prepared by the police staff.
On this Cyber Jagrookta Diwas, which also marks the completion of one year of this initiative of MHA, to disseminate the message of cyber safety and cyber hygiene, the Andaman & Nicobar Police is holding special awareness sessions with Defence personnel, Coast Guard, Councillors and PRI members, Government employees, Market associations & shopkeepers, school teachers & college students, villagers & village captains in order to take the message of cyber safety to the grass roots level.
It is our firm belief that armed with the knowledge of cyber safety, and aware of the scams being run by cyber-criminals, the citizens of the Islands will successfully avoid becoming victims of cyber-crime.