Stunned by CBI report,Karnataka govt to install software to block access to porn sites

“It has come to the government’s notice. We have taken a serious view of the matter,” state Information Technology and Biotechnology Minister S R Patil told reporters,days after CBI found that the internet protocol with kar.nic.in was extensively used by employees to view pornography,particularly in the state secretariat.

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CBI,according to reports,had stumbled upon the employees’ preoccupation with watching pornography while monitoring the internet activities in government offices during anti-terror surveillance and sent a report to the state Criminal Investigation Department.

Patil said ‘firewall’ would be installed and other “technical steps” taken to block all such unwanted sites. “This will start from Vidhana Soudha and state secretariat

offices here,” he said,adding,action would be taken

against erring employees.

He said he was pained to read reports about employees watching pornography during office hours while they had taken the pledge that ‘government work is God’s work’,words that are inscribed at the portal of Vidhana Soudha.