Union minister P P Chaudhary lays emphasis on cyber security

AGARTALA: Union Minister of State for IT P P Chaudhary today laid emphasis on cyber security keeping in mind the growing cases of cyber crime.

"There is a need to ensure foolproof cyber security since hacking of database is common in the virtual world," he said after inaugurating the newly built National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology (NIELIT) campus at Bodhjungnagar in Jirania sub-division.

He called upon the state government and other stakeholders to work hard on cyber security to reduce the possibility of misusing of IT enabled facilities - Facebook and Twitter.

Chaudhary said that the Narendra Modi government had set a target to take high-speed Internet service to the people's doorstep as part of Digital India vision by 2018.

On the shortage of faculty members in NIELIT, Agartala, he said the Ministry would take steps to fill up all vacancies by next year.

Earlier, the minister also inaugurated the Software Technology Park, Agartala centre.