Madhya Pradesh has become the first state of the country to implement cyber crisis management plan developed by M.P. state load dispatch centre Jabalpur. Sunil Tiwari, Managing Director, Madhya Pradesh Power Transmission Company (MPPTCL) said that on the instructions of the Central Government, the engineers of State Load Dispatch Centre of the Transmission Company prepared this Cyber Crisis Management Plan in-house without taking the help of expert consultants and implemented after approval by Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-India).
This is a system of international standard to prevent cyber-attacks. It deals with cyber security of all computer systems installed in Load Despatch Centre. Apart from this, Madhya Pradesh is the first state in the country whose load dispatch Centre has also been certified by ISO 27001, which is awarded for compliance with cyber security.
Energy Minister Pradyuman Singh Tomar has congratulated the engineers of Power Transmission Company on this achievement. He said that The advantage of implementing this system is that the entire system of Madhya Pradesh Power Transmission Company will be safe from external cyber-attacks and no one will be able to tamper the power system of the state through hacking or virus. In last year, Mumbai's electricity system was a victim of this cyber-attack, due to which there was power outage in Mumbai for hours. It was only after this incident that instructions were given by the Central Government to prepare such cyber security to the power sectors of the entire country. It is a matter of pride for Madhya Pradesh that Power System Operation Corporation Ltd, India, the organization that gives various guidelines to the power sector in India and the National Nodal Agency for Information Security, NCIIPC (National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre) has approved MP Transco system. By approving this management plan prepared by the company in the first test itself, it has accepted all the proposals related to the power system of this plan.
In preparing this system, the Chief Engineer of State Load Despatch Centre Jabalpur, Eng. K.K. Prabhakar and Superintending Engineer Eng. Rajesh Gupta's effort was remarkable. Without their extraordinary commitment it was not possible to develop such an international level system in-house & without hiring any expert’s consultant.
