The SCSC (Society for Cyberabad Security Council) conducted its 4th AGM Meeting under the chairmanship of Cyberabad Police Commissioner C.V.Anand and was attended by a large no of captains of the IT industry.
The chairman outlined the landmark activities of the council in the past 6 months. The SCSC functions as a bridge between the Govt. of TS and Police and the IT industry and helps take security measures for Women Safety, and physical security of establishments.
At the previous AGM, the SCSC was totally revamped with Bharani Aroll, VP of Bulter India, taking over as Secretary. The three forums created for Women’s Safety, Traffic and Security have done stupendous activity in engaging the IT employees in its activities.
The SCSC launched new activities including a bimonthly e-News Letter called ‘Cyber Shield’ which goes to all IT companies; Launch of 2 SHE Shuttles which is a free bus shuttle service for IT women employees in the IT Corridor; 10 SHE Cabs in the prepaid booths of the Airport; A highly successful Cyber Security Conclave and a new SCSC website.
As many as 866 Traffic volunteers doing traffic duties & contributing over 4000 Hrs of their time. Over 100 seminars were held by women’s forum for Women Safety awareness. Project Safe Stay was launched to improve and institutionalise safety of women in Hostels & Service Apartments and several mock Drills, evacuation and awareness conducted to assess and improve the security preparedness of individual Hotels and IT companies.
The Chairman appealed to the other IT companies to enroll as members of the SCSC and to increase it from the present 190 to over 300. The Secretary, Bharani, outlined all the above activities and explained the new enthusiasm in the IT world and how other cities like Gurgoan, Pune, Bangalore are looking at emulating the SCSC model. (INN)