To make the criminal tracking system Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and System (CCTNS) fool proof, the home department has released a contingency fund of Rs 55 crore for the system across Maharashtra.
Sources in the department claimed that the center government had directed all state governments to release this "contingency" fund for any urgent upgradation of the software that helps connect all the police stations of Maharashtra.
Maharashtra government in September 2015 launched the CCTNS in every police station, with an aim to adopt a paperless working mechanism. With this system, claimed to be the first such initiative by a state, the police will now be able to register an FIR with a single click.
"For certain kind of work you cannot wait for the lengthy the procedure of sanctioning of money through file work therefore a contingency fund was needed for this department since it deals with state's law and order," said a senior officer.
The CCTNS, which was approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs in 2009 with an initial outlay of Rs 2,000 crore, is a mission mode project under the government's National e-governance plan. It is being implemented by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), which says it is working on a "centralised planning and decentralised implementation" model.
Conceived by former home minister P Chitamabram after the Mumbai terror attacks of 2008, the project aims to connect more than 15,000 police stations and nearly 6,000 higher offices in 28 states and seven union territories in the country to facilitate sharing of information related to crime and criminals that is updated immediately after collection on a centrally connected platform.
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Quelle/Source: Daily News & Analysis, 10.04.2016
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