Chandigarh Police will soon set up online cybercrime reporting portal: Badnore

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, August 15

Chandigarh Police plans to set up an online cybercrime reporting portal. This was announced on Sunday during the 75th Independence Day function by UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore.

A cyber forensic training laboratory for preventing cyber-crime against women and children would also be set up, said Badnore, adding that “the Chandigarh Police is also developing a mobile app for registration and investigation of E-FIR purposes”.

Recalling the achievements of the Chandigarh Administration, Badnore said: “We have successfully vaccinated 7.2 lakh people, above 18 years of age with the first dose of Covishield, and achieved a 100 per cent target by August 14, 2021. This will act as a primary intervention in protecting the city against any future surge in Covid-19 infection.”

“We must be very clear that the pandemic is not over, and it will not be over until and unless the transmission is controlled. More than our usage, Vaccine hesitancy is a major barrier to vaccine uptake and the achievement of mass immunity. To substantially reduce morbidity and mortality from COVID-19, we must all be vaccinated,” he continued.

“It took a herculean effort on the part of our government to manage one of the biggest vaccination programs, that has already saved many lives, and the count is growing each day. In an attempt to cover the maximum population, door to door vaccination was started. Special vaccination camps are being conducted at the places witnessing maximum footfall, for Persons with Disabilities, their Caregivers and Senior Citizens of UT Chandigarh”, Badnore said.

“The City has also begun vaccinating pregnant women to reduce the risk of disease to the expectant mother and child. We also managed the oxygen supply in such a way that despite some shortage there was no crisis. Oxygen generation plants were installed in GMCH 32, Sector 48 Hospital, GMSH 16, and the supply was managed through rational distribution”.

“There was swift coordination in Tri-city to help each other with liquid oxygen in case of any crisis. We have planned expansion of ICU at GMSH 16 and Covid Pediatrics Hospital at Sector 45 Civil Hospital to keep ourselves ready to tackle any emergency during this ongoing pandemic”, Badnore added.

“I would like to express our gratitude to the voluntary organisations/NGO’s for their support in making the Mini Covid Care Centers functional in the City. 300-bed facilities were operational and other 200 beds facilities were at standby in no time. Thousands of patients were treated at these Centres with unparalleled professional medical care”.

“I feel happy in announcing that the Administration had taken up various visionary steps which would take Chandigarh to the threshold of a new development era. I wish to highlight some of these”, Badnore said.

HIGHLIGHTS: 

1. The overall pass percentage for class 10th in this session is 96.6%, which is 19.4 % higher from last year. The pass percentage for class 12th in this session is 98.7 %, which is 7.1 % higher than compared to that of the previous session, 2019-20. I congratulate the students of Class X and XII for showing such an exceptional result. 

2. India will be represented in PISA 2021 by Chandigarh because of its superior performance on MHRD’s Performance Grading Index (PGI) for State and UT education systems.

3. Chandigarh Administration has taken a step forward to extend financial & educational assistance to COVID orphaned children, children who lost one parent due to COVID and COVID positive children of UT Chandigarh through “PARVARISH Scheme”.

4. The Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan completes its first year today. To combat the menace of substance abuse preferably among children of Chandigarh, the Social Welfare department has sensitized masses through various media platforms.

5. Chandigarh has achieved most of the goals set by the NITI Aayog in the third edition of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) India Index 2020-21.

6. We have successfully completed the construction of 4 schools (Raipur Kalan, Industrial Area Phase –III, Maloya Pocket No. 1 and PGI) which will be made operational shortly. Further, two new school buildings of GHS-Mauli Jagran and GPS-Dhanas are nearing completion and will be made functional by end of this academic year.

7. Two Mini-Sports Complexes with Swimming Pools and Indoor Badminton Courts have been made functional in GMSSS-8 and GMSSS-27.

8. We have allotted 1707 flats to the families staying in Pre-Fab Shelters under Affordable Rental Housing Complexes Scheme, and steps have been taken to allot flats to the eligible residents of the Colony No.4

9. We have begun the first electric bus in the city and other 39 busses will be functional and running in the city by the end of September.

10. The first Material Recovery Facility – cum – Garbage Transfer Station has been made functional at 3BRD STP site, Industrial Area, Phase II, and the construction of other two is in process.

11. Chandigarh has started the largest Public Bike sharing Project in India with 25 docking stations and 175 bikes, which is to be scaled up to 5000 bikes by June 2022.

12. To meet the future demand of power and to provide reliable service to the consumers, work has been initiated to strengthen the 66 KV substations at water works sector 39.

13. We are also in the process of completing the construction of Billiards & Snooker facility at Sports Complex at Sector-42, Up-gradation of Football Stadium, Sector-17, New Emergency and Trauma Block at GMCH-32, New UT Secretariat building, Sports Injury Centre, Sec-32, Sports Complex at Industrial Area, Phase-II, Ramdarbar. We will also have a Mother and Child Care Centre (341 bedded) in GMCH-32 and GMSH-16 (404 beds) soon.