Lok Sabha Question No. 2610 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-09
Subject: Facilities for Cyber Forensic Training Labs
Ministry: HOME AFFAIRS
Asked by: Sudarshan Bhagat

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2610

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 09 th  JULY, 2019/ ASHADHA 18, 1941 (SAKA)

FACILITIES FOR CYBER FORENSIC TRAINING LABS

2610.

SHRI SUDARSHAN BHAGAT:

Will the Minister of HOME AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a)  whether it is a fact that sufficient facilities/laboratories for cyber forensic training are not available in the country and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether lack of such facility is hampering cyber investigation in the country and if so, the details thereof; and
- (c)  the  steps  being  taken  to  provide  adequate  facilities/laboratories  for  cyber forensic training in the country?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS (SHRI G. KISHAN REDDY)

(a)  to  (c):    States/UTs  are  primarily  responsible  for  setting  up  facilities/ laboratories for cyber forensic training.  Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has provided  grant  of  Rs.  93.12  crore  to  all  the  States/  Union  Territories  under Cyber Crime Prevention against Women and Children (CCPWC) scheme, to set up  cyber  forensic  cum  training  laboratories,  hiring  of  junior  cyber  consultant and training/ capacity building to provide hands-on training to Law Enforcement Agencies  (LEAs)  personnel,  prosecutors  and  judicial  officers.    These  Cyber forensic  cum  training  laboratories  have  already  been  commissioned  in  the states  of  Himachal  Pradesh,  Madhya  Pradesh,  Uttarakhand,  Telangana,  Uttar Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh.

Advisories have also been issued to States/ UTs regarding using these training labs for capacity building  of LEA personnel,  prosecutors  and judicial  officers.

## LS.US.Q.NO.2610 FOR 09.07.2019

Indicative list of basic and cyber forensic tools for the Cyber Forensic Lab cum Training Centres has also been provided to States/ UTs.

MHA has prepared 3-days and 5-days training programmes for law enforcement agencies  personnel,  prosecutors  and  judicial  officers  for  better  handling  of investigation and prosecution and requested State Governments/ Union Territories  to  organize  training  programmes.    So  far,  more  than  6,000  LEA personnel,  judicial  officers  and  prosecutors  have  been  provided  training  on cyber crime awareness, investigation, forensics, etc.  under  the  CCPWC scheme.

MHA  has  also  rolled  out  a  scheme  'Indian  Cyber  Crime  Coordination  Centre (I4C)'  for  the  period  2018-2020, which  has  a  component  namely  National Cybercrime  Training  Centre  for  capacity  building  in  the  field  of  cyber  crime investigation.

In addition, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has set up  cyber  forensic  training  labs  in  Ghaziabad  (CBI  Academy),  Mumbai,  Pune, Bangalore,  Kolkata,  Kerala,  Uttarakhand  and  all  north  eastern  States  for training in cyber crime detection, seizing, preservation and imaging of digital evidence, etc.  Using these facilities, more than 28,000 police/ LEA personnel and about 1000 judicial officers have been trained.

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