New Delhi: Home minister Sushil Shinde will inaugurate on Friday the much-awaited project to create a comprehensive and integrated system for sharing data among 14,000 police stations across the country. The Rs 2,000 crore project, approved in 2009 has been running three years behind schedule.
Shinde will launch the pilot programme of Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) in New Delhi. CCTNS aims at creating a comprehensive and integrated system for enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of policing through adopting of principle of e-Governance.
The project also includes creation of a nation-wide networking infrastructure for evolution of IT-enabled-state- of-the-art tracking system around 'investigation of crime and detection of criminals'. Under the CCTNS project, which was conceived by the then Home Minister P Chidambaram after the Mumbai terror attack, approximately 14,000 police stations throughout the country will be connected apart from 6,000 higher offices in police hierarchy.
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