It is never too early to get people to watch out for the warning signs of cyber crime. And, what better way to get the message across than targeting undergraduates?
It is never too early to get people to watch out for the warning signs of cyber crime. And, what better way to get the message across than targeting undergraduates?
In light of the climbing cyber crime graph in the city, the state government is planning to introduce a course on this subject at the undergraduate level. The course may even be made mandatory for all those aspiring to land a government job or to don the khaki and for those already in service.
Former director general of police D Sivanandan presented a concept note on this at a meeting held at Mantralaya last week, which was chaired by higher and technical education minister Rajesh Tope. A committee of experts from various fields has been directed to submit a report in the next few weeks on the proposal to introduce such a syllabus.
According to Tope, the course has been proposed to be introduced on two levels. Level one will deal with just the basic knowledge in the junior and senior college curricula, while the next level will offer a specialised syllabus to undergraduate and post-graduate students. “With the rise in the number of tech-savvy people in Maharashtra, instances of cyber crime have also substantially shot up. There aren’t enough experts in the field to keep pace with the rise in such crimes.”
Tope said such a syllabus will not only create awareness on the issue, but will also open up new job avenues.
“Hi-tech devices and advanced technologies are used in terror and Naxal attacks in the country. We lack the expertise and the knowledge to rein in such technology. Though police academies disseminate basic knowledge on cyber crime to new recruits, an extensive academic syllabus needs to be introduced,” Sivanandan reportedly argued at the meeting.
According to a vice-chancellor of a university who attended the meeting, an expert backed Sivanandan’s proposal to make the syllabus compulsory for police and government job aspirants as well as for those already in service in a phased manner. “This will require changes to be made in recruitment rules. The government is quite enthused about it,” he said.
The expert committee is expected to be headed by Nagpur University vice-chancellor VS Sakpal and will include Vijay Chitnis, former dean of law at the University of Mumbai, and cyber crime law expert Beena Tendulkar.
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