`Signature building’, a multi-storied complex to house all the premiere organizations of the Police Department including director general of police office, will soon come up in the Gomati Nagar Extension area of the City.
A budgetary provision of Rs 47.50 crore for the said project has been already sanctioned in this financial year. Giving the above information soon after a high level meeting conducted by chief secretary, Jawed Usmani, here on Tuesday afternoon, principal secretary Home, RM Srivastava said that the proposal was long pending to shift the DGP office as well as other organizations working under it under one roof. He said that the move besides helping the citizens to contact any of the police wing at one place, will also facilitate the Department by cut in cost over maintenance, travel expenses of officers or on other staff incurred on going from one office to another etc. He claimed that it will also help to concentrate on full proof security arrangements of the police wings as earlier it was not easy to cover all the units spread across the city.
RM Srivastava said that besides the DGP office, other major police wings which will be shifted in the new building of the department included offices of HumanRights, Special Enquiry, Economic Offence Wing, Anti- Corruption Establishment, Government Railway Police,Rules and Manuals, State Crime Record Bureau, Fire Services, Traffic Directorate, Training Directorate, Technical and Computer Services, ADG Special Investigation Team, ADG Cooperative, Food Cell along with all other district level offices of the above wings working in the State capital.He said that Provisioning and Budget Wing, Welfare and Housing Wing and Establishment Wing, which are presently run from the Police Head Quarter building in Allahabad will be also shifted in the new building of the Police Department in Gomatinagar. Besides Jawed Usmani who chaired the meeting regarding the above and RM Srivastava, DGP, Deoraj Nagar, secretary finance, Himanshu Kumar and other senior officers of the Home and Finance Department were also present during the meeting held at Shastri Bhawan on Tuesday afternoon.