Parliamentarians on Friday raised concerns over cyber safety in the new Parliament constructing throughout a meeting of the Committee on Information and Communication Technology Management in the Rajya Sabha in the Parliament House Annexe Building.
MPs urged the federal government to take enough steps to safe the monetary property of the general public at massive.
“Increase cyber security awareness in the country and develop a ‘cyber consciousness index’ to gauge it,” they appealed to the federal government.
Top officers of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the public-sector Punjab National Bank briefed parliamentarians on the cyber menace.
The MeitY officers gave a presentation to the MPs on problems with cyber safety and the style in which the ministry and organisations below it are addressing the identical.
The committee had met below the chairmanship of AAP member ND Gupta. The panel members raised their concerns and queries to the officers.
The panel members informed high officers of the financial institution to make sure that monetary property of public at massive are secured and raised a number of queries to them on the problem, stated the sources.
Measures being put in place to boost cyber safety of Member Services and to safe the new constructing of the Parliament had been additionally listed in the course of the presentation.
Secretary, the Department of Financial Services (DFS) and representatives of the Punjab National Bank had been additionally current to specific their views on the regulatory framework and the measures being taken by them on implementing mechanisms for cyber safety and digital id/digital fee mechanisms and the steps being taken to boost the identical.
Amid rising circumstances of cyber safety breaches and frauds coming to the fore, the panel is more likely to name high officers of personal banks in the close to future and members would quickly undertake area visits to financial institution headquarters in Mumbai to examine the steps taken by banks in this regard, the sources stated.
So far, the panel has known as officers of the State Bank of India and the Punjab National Bank and raised their concerns on the problem.
(With PTI inputs)
