Daily Current Affairs Quiz: January 11 2023

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ANSWER: C

• The New Development Bank (NDB) has agreed to fund the Shimla Urban Transport Ropeway Project.
• The project will be implemented under the 90:10 financial scheme by the Centre and the state.
• This information was given by RD Nazeem, Principal Secretary, Transport.
• The cost of the project, the first of its kind in the country, will be around Rs 1,600 crore.
• The ropeway will have a network of 14.69 km, starting from Taradevi, the entry point to the city. It will have 15 boarding and de-boarding stations close to the circular road.
• The stations will be built along the circular road so that people have easy access to cable cars.
• Parking lots will also be created near these stations,” said Rohit Thakur, Chief General Manager, Ropeway and Rapid Transport System Development Corporation (RRTSDC), the implementing agency of the project.
• “Several surveys are being carried out to assess the social and environmental impact of the project.
• The ropeway will lead to decongestion of the city roads. It will have the capacity of ferrying around 7,000 passengers in an hour to various parts of the city.
• It will be like “Metro on ropes.”

ANSWER: B

• Despite an exponential rise in cybercrimes across the state, two newly opened cyber police stations at Mandi and Dharamsala have been denotified by the new government.
• Both police stations were opened at the fag end of the tenure of the last government though their proposals were chalked out in November 2021 by the state CID. Though no infrastructure was created and just officials were posted there, the need to strengthen these was a dire necessity given the rising cybercrimes in the state.
• There are three police ranges in the state — Southern, Central and Northern. Each has four districts within its purview. There is barely one such police station in Shimla to handle cases from all 12 districts.
• The two cyber crime police stations were supposed to ease the burden of the lone cyber police station in Shimla by making available specially trained cyber warriors.
• The Police Department was endeavouring to open such police stations in 10 districts, barring the two tribal districts, in view of the increased reporting of such crimes on the National Crime Recording Portal through toll free number 1930. On an average, 5,000 complaints per month are received on the portal.
• As many as 368 FIRs were registered in the southern range, 129 in the central range and 57 in the northern range from 2017 to 2021. As many as 31 FIRs were registered at cyber crime’s Shimla-based police station.
• Similarly, cases of cyber frauds have registered an steep rise. As many as 1,234 cases have been registered in the last five years in the southern range, 1,669 were registered in central range, 478 in the northern range while 4,302 were registered at Shimla.
• The number of social media complaints too have witnessed an increase with the CID’s cyber police station registering 3,446 cases in the last five years while miscellaneous cases, comprising other cyber-related crimes, touched 3,010 in the same period as per figures secured from Shimla.
• Field officials face handicaps like the delayed receipt of data pertaining to Facebook, WhatsApp usage of an accused as well as the failure to get the pinpoint location of an accused from most cellular companies while investigating a cyber crime. This often impedes investigation as the first few hours of a crime are the most crucial.
• Neighbouring states have taken a lead in stepping up their preparedness like move to recruit experts and opening more cyber police stations.

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