Railways to have its own full-fledged cyber cell

The Railway Board has decided to have its own full-fledged cyber cell and constituted a committee to work out modalities, a top Railway Protection Force (RPF) official said Friday.

He said Railways has recieved 70 lakh applications for 9,000 vacancies in the RPF for which recruitment in currently underway.

"The Railway Board has constituted a committee which represents the RPF also to set up a cyber cell. Such a cell is needed for not only for the RPF, but also for entire Railway security, for commercial activities, for tendering process kind of works.

"Therefore, it has been decided to have a cyber cell at the Railway Board level," said Arun Kumar, Director General of RPF.

"And we have said the cell should function under the RPF. Let the committee take a call on this," he said.

Kumar was in the city to review security measures and coordination with other agencies, including the GRP.

Addressing reporters, he said, "Besides having a general cyber cell of Railways at a central location, we also required to have own cyber cell at zonal and divisional levels."