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Union minister lays emphasis on cyber security

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Press Trust of India 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 fool proof 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 stake holders 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 door step 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.

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First Published: Apr 26 2017 | 4:48 PM IST

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