IGNOU has tied up with the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), which will act as the resource centre for the course.
“The objective is to enable a candidate acquire a critical understanding of cyber law and the emerging intellectual property rights,” said Pro Vice-Chancellor of IGNOU, Omprakash Mishra.
The university will write to the Kolkata Police to inform them about the course, said Mishra. The course is designed for police officers, law professionals, software personnel, company secretaries and chartered accountants.
The course content for the programme will be available online for easy access.
Mishra said that IGNOU has launched a School of Law, which has developed the course on cyber law. In future, it will run courses on Diploma in Paralegal Education, Post-graduate Diploma in Criminal Justice.
“We have distributed about 14,000 forms for the course in the state till now,” said Sujit Ghosh, the regional director of IGNOU in West Bengal.