The Home Minister said that inter-ministerial and inter-departmental coordination within the Ministry of Home Affairs has been strengthened, ensuring seamless communication and smooth flow of information. “A healthy tradition of exchange of information between the MHA, the Ministry of Electronics and IT, CERT-IN, I4C, and departments like Telecom and Banking has led to successfully tackling many cybercrime cases,” he said.The meeting was attended by Union Ministers of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai, Bandi Sanjay Kumar, members of the Committee, Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan, and senior officials of the MHA.The Home Minister, highlighted that the expansion of digital infrastructure has led to an increase in the number of cyberattacks. He also said that “when we look at cyberspace from a different perspective, it forms a complex network of software, services and users. We need to control them to deal with issues in cyberspace”.Shah said, “Today, 95 per cent of villages in the country are digitally connected, and one lakh gram panchayats are equipped with Wi-Fi hotspots. In the past ten years, the number of internet users has increased by 4.5 times.” He went on to add that in 2024, a total of 246 trillion transactions worth Rs 17.221 lakh crore were made through UPI, which is 48 per cent of the total global digital transactions.
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