India, Aug. 12 -- The Government of India has issued a release:

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

11

10

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

1

2

Chandigarh

7

3

Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu

2

4

Delhi

249

5

Jammu and Kashmir

5

6

Ladakh

12

7

Lakshadweep

1

8

Puducherry

7

Total

284

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:

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.

Disclaimer: Curated by HT Syndication.