The first phase of the National Cyber Coordination Centre, set up to scan the country's web traffic to detect cyber security threats has become operational. <br/><br/>Minister of State for Electronics and IT, P P Chaudhary said in a reply in the Lok Sabha yesterday that the government has also made operational botnet and malware cleaning centre that will detect malicious software in devices of citizens and clean them. <br/><br/>National Cyber Coordination Centre, scans internet traffic coming into the country to detect real-time cyber threat and alert various organisations as well as internet service providers for timely action. <br/><br/>He said, the Centre will scan the cyberspace in the country for cyber security threats at metadata level to generate situational awareness.