Saturday, 13 December 2014

Telangana government mulls cyber security programme under TASK

INDIA - HYDERABAD: The Telangana government is planning to launch a specialized cyber security programme in association with the state's technology institutes under its Telangana Academy of Skill and Knowledge (TASK) initiative, said a top Telangana official on Friday.

"According to Union government estimates, the country requires around 5 lakh cyber security professionals. We think this is a great opportunity for us to create jobs by imparting training in this area. Hence, we are actively looking at launching a cyber security programme under TASK and are in talks with institutions such as IIIT to chalk out the framework," Telangana IT, Electronics & Communications department director (communications) A S Ramesh said during a session on 'e-governance' organized by the Computer Society of India (CSI) as part of its golden jubilee program - CSI 2014 -- here. However, he did not specify the timeline for the launch of the programme.

Even Telangana chief secretary Rajiv Sharma pointed out that data security was a major concern for the state government due to the rise in instances of cybercrimes in the country.

Meanwhile, Ramesh also pointed out that the government has requested that Union government to extend its National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) project to all districts of Telangana. Currently, the network is restricted to Nizamabad, Khammam and Rangareddy.

Under the NOFN initiative, the Union government will lay 7-lakh-km of optical fibre cable in all the major village panchayats of the country.

Speaking about e-government initiatives of the Union and state governments, PWC managing consultant Biju Kadapurath said that apart from connecting to citizens digitally, governments can also look at G-2-G (government to government) as well as G-2-E (government to employee) communication.

Indian School of Business (ISB) dean Ajit Rangnekar pointed out that if the government wants to bring more people under its e-governance umbrella, it must look at providing services on mobile platforms as well because most of the people in the rural India access internet via mobiles. This apart, he said that it was necessary to provide these services in local languages as it would enable more people to use e-governance services in the country.

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