Women cyber complaint portal to be up by March 2018

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 …read more