The National Girls Day was celebrated on the theme of ‘Self-reliant Safe Girl’ in the Bhopal. On this occasion, CSP of Shahjanabad, Sunil Kumar Shivhare, Cyber crime inspector Manjula Mishra, Shahjanabad police station in-charge Salil Sharma, Joint Director Women Empowerment Naqi Jaha Qureshi, Distinct Women Empowerment Officer Kumkum Datt, Nirbhya Women Shelter Home Bhopal’s Sher Afzal Khan, Senior Advocate Usha Ingle and Vikas Mashra were present.
One-day workshop was held in Nirbhya Shelter Home on prevention of cyber crimes and online frauds. Along with creating awareness among girls, subject experts gave tips to be alert in this regard. Two gallant and courageous girls were felicitated. Qureshi said that cyber crimes and online frauds against girls are taking place constantly. She added the awareness programme was held with the main objectives of making the students aware on the increasing crime against women and girls and how to prevent and protect themselves from becoming a victim and sensitizing the students on what are the preventive mechanisms and legal procedure on gender based violence, cyber crime and domestic violence etc.
Subject experts apprised them of ways to evade the crimes and frauds. 24 January is Girls Day functions. Girl students of schools, colleges, hostels and girls shelter homes participated in the workshop.
Shivhare dwelt on negative dimensions of social networking sites, phishing, cyber tracking and spoofing, ATM scams, online scam, and email threats, and the ways to counter them while inaugurating a workshop on ‘Cyber Crimes: Prevention Methodologies’.