Under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and guidance of Home Minister Shri Amit Shah, building a Cyber Safe India is one of the top priorities of the Ministry of Home Affairs
Under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and guidance of Home Minister Shri Amit Shah, building a Cyber Safe India is one of the top priorities of the Ministry of Home Affairs
Under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and guidance of Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah, building a Cyber Safe India is one of the top priorities of the Ministry of Home Affairs. Government is fully committed towards creating a cyber- safe country as cyber security has become an essential aspect of all security related matters globally.
In line with Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s vision of a cyber-safe India, Home Minister Shri Amit Shah inaugurated Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C) in January 2020 to deal with cybercrime in the country in a coordinated and comprehensive manner with an outlay of Rs. 340 crore. The I4C focuses on tackling issues related to cybercrime for citizens, including improving coordination between various Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) and stakeholders.
The efforts made by the Ministry of Home Affairs under the guidance of Home Minister Shri Amit Shah have now started showing results, examples of which are as follows: –
Year
% Lien Amount
Amount (in Crore)
2021
6.73
36.38
2022
7.35
169.04
2023
12.32
921.59
I4C is instrumental in Blocking of more than 2,95,000 fake SIM cards, more than 46,000 IMEI, more than 2800 websites/URLs, 595 Mobile Applications through its module JCCT Management Information System (JMIS) (Beta version).
- Since its roll out, I4C has been working towards enhancing the nation’s collective capability to tackle cybercrime and develop effective coordination among the Law Enforcement Agencies and stakeholders, driving change in India’s overall capability to tackle cybercrime. A citizen-centric National Cybercrime Reporting Portal (NCRP) was launched in 2019, which is one of the most significant achievements of I4C.
- The portal has been used for more than 14 crore times till date, which shows its credibility and usefulness. More than 31 lakh cybercrime complaints have been reported by citizens and more than 66,000 FIRs have been registered by LEAs of States/UT so far.
- Through Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems (CCTNS), 99.9% Police Stations (16,597) are registering 100% FIRs directly and 28.98 crore Police records have been registered. More than 12.30 crore requests have been disposed of by the State Police, out of 12.82 crore service requests received from citizens. FIRs in NCRP are reflected through CCTNS.
- National Automated Finger-Print Identification System (NAFIS) of National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has revolutionized the fingerprint recognition system in crime control, with this system, the work of tracing the involvement of interstate criminals in crimes is being done with greater ease, accuracy and efficiency across the country. 1,05,80,266 records are being integrated on NAFIS. This system will help I4C in interstate linkage of cyber criminals.
- Another initiative of I4C, National Cybercrime Helpline number 1930, is helping the common citizen in registering online financial frauds. All States/UTs have been on boarded and more than 263 banks, e-commerce companies and others have been integrated. With the help of this system, more than Rs 1,100 crore of citizen’s money which was siphoned off by cyber criminals have been saved, thus, benefitting more than 4.3 lac victims in 3 years through CFCFRMS module. This system is integrated with NPCI for real time prevention. We will be on boarding more banks through API integration. Further, Rs 12.12 crore have been released to 28 States / UTs under ‘HM’s Contingency Reserve’ for setting up the infrastructure of National Helpline no.1930 in the March, 2023. National Helpline no.1930 receives around 50,000 calls every day. In 2023, using this CFCFRMS module, 12.32 % of total fraudulent amount was lien marked against 6.73 % in 2021, this shows the impact of National Helpline number 1930 and CFCFRMS module.