Ministry of Electronics & IT
Government Strengthens Cyber Security
Capacity of Women Officials through
CyberShakti Programme
प्रव तथ: 12 AUG 2026 1:37PM by PIB Delhi
The Government has taken note of the recommendation of the 2026 Standing Committee Report on the
Empowerment of Women to scale up the CyberShakti programme. The programme was approved for a
period of two years starting from October...
Ministry of Electronics & IT Government Strengthens Cyber Security Capacity of Women Officials through CyberShakti Programme प्रव तथ: 12 AUG 2026 1:37PM by PIB Delhi The Government has taken note of the recommendation of the 2026 Standing Committee Report on the Empowerment of Women to scale up the CyberShakti programme. The programme was approved for a period of two years starting from October 2024 with the objective of enhancing cyber security awareness and strengthening cyber security skills among women government officials. The second phase of the project is recommended by the working group on Cyber Security in May 2026.
A total of 978 women government officials including women police officers, cyber cell personnel and women officials dealing with victims of cybercrimes have been trained under the CyberShakti programme since its inception in 2024 through 2-week Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) mode online training programme and one-week offline residential training programme. The State/UT-wise details of women government officials trained under the CyberShakti programme since its inception in 2024:
S. No. State No. of Women Official Trained 1 Andhra Pradesh 12 2 Assam 11 3 Bihar 11 4 Chhattisgarh 6 5 Goa 7 6 Gujarat 81 7 Haryana 42 8 Himachal Pradesh 30 9 Jharkhand 1110 Karnataka 73 11 Kerala 36 12 Madhya Pradesh 15 13 Maharashtra 53 14 Manipur 5 15 Meghalaya 16 16 Mizoram 2 17 Nagaland 1 18 Odisha 32 19 Punjab 12 20 Rajasthan 29 21 Sikkim 1 22 Tamil Nadu 64 23 Telangana 28 24 Tripura 19 25 Uttar Pradesh 45 26 Uttarakhand 32 27 West Bengal 20 Total 694 S. No. Union Territory (UT) No. of Women Official Trained 1 Andaman & Nicobar Islands 12 Chandigarh 7 3 Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and 2 Diu 4 Delhi 249 5 Jammu and Kashmir 5 6 Ladakh 12 7 Lakshadweep 1 8 Puducherry 7 Total 284 In addition to the training programmes, a total of 573 women participants have attended webinars aimed at sensitizing them toward the importance of cyber security.
This information was submitted by Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Shri Jitin Prasada in Rajya Sabha on 07.08.2026. **** Vinod Kumar / Kanishk Sharma (रलीज़ आईडी: 2298110) आगंतुक पटल : 545 इस वज्ञ को इन भाषाओ ंम पढ़: Urdu , ही , Tamil , Telugu