UGC directs Universities, Colleges to organise competitions on Cyber security, Cyber crime

The move aims to strengthen cyber security and to tackle the unforeseen challenges of cybercrime and develop an ecosystem for cyber security in HEIs.

University Grants Commission (UGC) has directed the Universities and colleges across the country to prepare a calendar of events and arrange regular competitions, hackathons, workshops, seminars, etc. on cyber security/ cybercrimes on their respective campuses. The Higher Education regulator also asked the universities and colleges to conduct all these events at regular intervals following COVID-19 protocols and norms of social distancing at their respective educational institutions. 

The Universities and colleges have been directed to share the action taken on the University Activity Portal of UGC i.e. uee.ac. in/uamp. The move aims to strengthen cyber security and to tackle the unforeseen challenges of cybercrime and develop an ecosystem for cyber security in HEIs.

It must be noted that this is not the first time that the UGC has asked the universities and colleges to strengthen their cyber security. 

In February 2021, the UGC had requested the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to develop an ecosystem for cyber security in their respective campuses.

“It is once again requested to give wide publicity amongst students, faculty and stakeholders about the initiatives of the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (l4C) of Ministry of Home Affairs MHA's Twitter handle @CyberDost, the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal which provides updates and advisories at regular intervals for prevention of cyber-crimes,” UGC circular read.

Meanwhile, the UGC has begun the registration process for scholarships to the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) postgraduate students in professional courses. All the candidates who are fulfilling the eligibility criteria must note that they need to apply online through the National Scholarship Portal following which the institutions will verify the applications and supporting documents.

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