Excelsior Correspondent
Kargil, Apr 18: Directorate of Information & Public Relations, Union Territory of Ladakh here today organized a workshop on Cyber Security.
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Kargil, Ram R; Chief Engineer, PHE, I&FC, Maqbool Hussain; Joint Director, Information, Ladakh, Imteeaz Kacho; Assistant Commissioner Development, Kargil Padma Angmo and others were present on the occasion.
While addressing the audience, SSP Kargil, Ram R highlighted various cyber-related crimes such as investment fraud, crypto currency fraud and ponzi-type schemes and urged the audience to exercise caution.
The Nodal Officer of SVEEP in Kargil, Ghulam Rasool Lal also addressed the audience and gave an outline of the activities related to voter education and electoral literacy.
Resource persons from the Police, banking sector and legal field were invited for the workshop in order to explain the nuances of cyber frauds in a simple and lucid manner. They threw ample light on their given topics from different perspectives.
Sub-Inspector Tsering Dolkar from the Cyber Crime Unit of Ladakh Police gave an elaborate Power Point Presentation (PPT) and extensively threw light on various types of cyber frauds and enlightened the audience about how to take precautionary measures.
Addressing the legal dimensions of cyber security, Legal Assistant of Directorate of Information, Muzaffar Hussain outlined the existing laws related to cybercrime in India and informed the audience about the supervisory and monitoring bodies involved.
The inquisitive students and other participants sought to know more from the resource persons and speakers through a variety of questions during the course of the workshop.
The Regional Arts & Theatre Art Group (RaNTHAG), led by its Director Kacho Ahmed Khan, presented a play demonstrating the vulnerability and severe consequences of cyber frauds in an innovative and effective manner.
A short film on digital payment fraud was also screened during the course of the workshop in order to bring home the simple point that anybody and everybody could be targetted by scamsters irrespective of the level of awareness.
In his address, the Joint Director, Information, Imteeaz Kacho said that the Department of Information & Public Relations is organizing workshops in both Kargil and Leh today on a variety of topics including cyber security.
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