CCPWC, a project proposed by the MHA under the Nirbhaya Fund, was cleared by the WCD ministry for Rs 244.32 crore in May 2016
The women and child development ministry on Wednesday said that the Cyber Crime Prevention of Women and Children (CCPWC) project, on which the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), the National Informatics Centre (NIC) and the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) are collaborating, will now be operational by March 2018; it was supposed to be completed by December this year.
The WCD ministry said that while work on the project is being carried out by the three government agencies, women and children who are facing increasing instances of abuse on online platforms should report it on the Digital Police Portal which was launched last month. The portal has a database of criminals.
CCPWC, a project proposed by the MHA under the Nirbhaya Fund, was cleared by the WCD ministry for Rs 244.32 crore in May 2016. Progress on it has been slow and information has been hard to come by. The project involves a platform where complaints can be filed and it will be monitored by the cyber cell of the Home ministry.
In March this year, the MHA informed the department-related parliamentary standing committee that is preparing the demand for grants that as part of the project, 36 Cyber Forensics Training Centres will be set up across all states and union territories. Apart from that, 40,500 police officers will be trained across India and a research and development centre will also be established to study cybercrime prevention technologies, to study new tools, and for training and capacity-building.
The committee, however, had pulled up the MHA for under-reporting cases of child abuse. "The Committee is aware of the fact that child sexual abuse and related crimes remain overwhelmingly under-reported in this country due to associated stigma and propensity of parents/ guardians to not involve police in these matters. The Committee feels that the process of reporting such crimes needs to be simplified and identity of children involved be protected to ensure that such crimes do not go unreported," read the report.
ABOUT CCPWC
- CCPWC was proposed by MHA under the Nirbhaya Fund
- Ministry of Home Affairs, the National Informatics Centre and the National Crime Records Bureau are collaborating on it
- It was cleared by the WCD ministry for Rs 244.32 crore in May 2016
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