HPT College creates cyber awareness

Nashik | Monday | 16th January, 2017

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"Not just that, they also make youngsters realise pitfalls of committing a cyber crime," shares VN Suryawanshi, principal of HPT College where the student cyber cell has been established.

Therefore, city`s first ever college cyber cell is comprised students who teach their counterparts to be safe online.

As India takes its definite steps towards digital money transactions, threats of cyber crime still looms around.

If cyber cell would`ve been in existence back then, the situation would have been handled differently.

In the incidences of cyber crime faced by youngsters, it has been often observed that the wrongdoers are also young.

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We have often heard of cyber bulling, stalking, fishing and other instances of misuse of social media.

As India takes its definite steps towards digital money transactions, threats of cyber crime still looms around.

In the incidences of cyber crime faced by youngsters, it has been often observed that the wrongdoers are also young.

Therefore, city`s first ever college cyber cell is comprised students who teach their counterparts to be safe online.

"Not just that, they also make youngsters realise pitfalls of committing a cyber crime," shares VN Suryawanshi, principal of HPT College where the student cyber cell has been established."The students of our computer-science and electronics departments were already working with some of the cyber awareness programmes.

Then on the suggestion of Nashik police commissioner Ravindra Singhal and in association with a private company, we decided to give an organisational form to our initiative by forming a cyber cell," informs Ashish Chourasiya, college professor and head of the student cyber cell.The students of the cyber cell are trained by police commissionerate.