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MCC carries out “Swachhata Ki Paathshala” at 10 schools from Aug 22 to 26

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IEP CHANDIGARH AUGUST 27, 2022

“Swachhata Ki Paathshala”, an initiative of Municipal Corporation Chandigarh which was initiated in July, 2022 to motivate the young minds to follow the habits of personal hygiene, cleanliness in the surroundings etc. In this initiative, the Commissioner, Joint Commissioners and other senior officers along with employees of corporation visit the schools of daily basis to address the students about the importance of segregation of waste, ban on plastic, home composting and responsibility of the citizen.

During these sessions, Ms. Anindita Mitra IAS, Commissioner Municipal Corporation Chandigarh and other officers of MCC Mrs. Shalini Chetal, Sh. Rohit Gupta, Mrs. Isha Kamboj, Joint Commissioners, Sh. N.P. Sharma, Chief Engineer, Dr. Vinay Mohan, MOH and Dr. Vivek Trivedi, Social Development Officer addressed students between class 6th to 12th and emphasized upon the import of segregation of waste considering the amount of waste being generated and its negative impact on environment if not segregated.

“School authorities are actively participating in the activity and they are cooperating with the corporation in vision to make the city beautiful in real sense of cleanliness. The aim behind organizing “Swachhta Ki Paathshala” is to bring sustainable change in the attitude of students as well as adults.”, she added.

An interactive session was conducted with students by Representatives of Municipal Corporation during which Students ask their queries and all the queries are answered by the officials.  Videos are shown to the students for better understanding of the swachhata related issues.

Students are trained to take responsibility to keep the city clean and deter people from littering the streets, spitting in public places and stop using single-use plastic. The message taken by the students during “Swachhata Ki Paathshala” spreads to their parents, families and surroundings in true spirit of responsible citizens.

During the last week from August 22nd – 26th, 2022, MCC has covered 10 Government and Private Schools covering the urban and peripheral areas including GMSSS- MHC, Manimajra, GMHS, Sec-7, GMSSS- Karsan, St. Mary’s School- Sec-46, Kulwant Rai Sarvhitkari Vidya Mandir, Sec-43, Aanchal International  School, Sec- 41, Paragon Convent School, Sec- 24, Bhavan Vidyalaya, Sec-27, GMSSS- Sec. 44/B, GMSSS-Kaimbwa

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Cyber Swachhta Mission initiative of Chandigarh Police

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IEP CHANDIGARH JULY 2, 2022

Cyber Swachhta Mission is part of Chandigarh Police’s community outreach initiative to inculcate Cyber Hygiene among citizens and spread cyber awareness primarily through engagement of youth. It is a kind of unique and creative collaboration among police, academia, technical industry and community so as to make Cyber Awareness a Jan Andolan. Students from reputed colleges/universities of Chandigarh are enrolled as Cyber Soldiers, who are trained in cyber security and cyber awareness by cyber experts and police officials as part of Internship Programme under the mission. It is a way for students to gain valuable experience in law enforcement by involving them in the creation of a healthy, positive and hygienic cyber space.

The objective of this programme is to engage the youth in nation building and national security, spread cyber literacy and discern penetrating/insights into social media, thus creating a positive and robust cyber space & enabling collection of information/facts from open sources to produce actionable intelligence.

Cyber Swachhta Mission was launched on 17th November, 2021 with enrollment of 300 students from Punjab Engineering College (PEC), Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College (MCM), University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET) & Punjab University enrolled as Cyber Interns. This programme provided learning and training in the domain of cyber awareness and cyber security to Interns. The Interns worked as team under the mentorship of police officials and tasks were assigned to them regularly and their assessment was conducted. Infosys provided intensive 4-month training to the cyber interns covering topics such as cyber security, OSINT, coding, dark web, cyber crime investigation , etc. Following cyber related activities were carried out:-

1.       Survey regarding cyber awareness among senior citizens

2.       Detecting and Identifying Fake news; Unlawful Content Flagging

3.       Cyber 112 – Interaction of cyber interns with complainants

4.       Cyber 112 – Interaction of cyber interns with complainants

5.       Cyber Awareness Sabhas at Police station and beat level, involving all category of citizens

6.       Cyber Awareness sessions in schools and colleges, covering around 28000 students in 85 institutions

After the successfully completion of 1st batch, Chandigarh Police has started 2nd Batch of Cyber Internship, in which enrolment forms of approx. 1100 students from various colleges of Tri-city were received, out of which 389 students from 9 different colleges & institutes have been selected and divided in 16 Teams, police station wise, to carry out various cyber related awareness & survey activities and already their introductory training and orientation has begun.

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