Govt taking steps to curb cyber crimes: Scindia

New Delhi

The authorities is taking varied measures, together with establishing Digital Intelligence Platform, to curb cyber crimes and worldwide spoof calls have additionally come down, Union Communication Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia stated on Wednesday.

He instructed the Lok Sabha that the communications and residential ministries have taken 4 to 5 main measures to take care of cyber crimes.

The Digital Intelligence Platform (DIP) brings varied stakeholders collectively.

It has coopted 620 establishments, together with 570 banks, police establishments of 36 states and investigating companies, Scindia stated in the course of the Question Hour.

Elaborating on the measures taken, the minister additionally stated that worldwide spoofed calls have come down by 97 per cent.

A Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI) software program is getting used whereby the information about people doing fraud with banks are categorised into varied classes. The particulars are supplied to all of the banks and the transaction of such people are blocked, he stated.

Responding to a supplementary query, Scindia stated state-owned BSNL and MTNL are again on the highway to restoration.

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The minister talked about concerning the evaluation assembly of BSNL this week and stated a marketing strategy will probably be ready, particularly for every enterprise circle.