Make the Crime & Criminal Tracking Network System (CCTNS) more citizen-centric incorporating common service delivery-based online applications,” directed Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi to officials while presiding over a State Apex Committee meeting at the State Secretariat on Saturday.
He wanted preparation of a list of the services to be delivered online through the CCTNS and put in place required IT applications for the purpose.
DGP Kunwar Brajesh Singh, present at the meeting, was advised to make suitable in-house arrangements for deriving maximum benefit out of the system, particularly in the matters of investigation of crimes, expeditious tracking, prosecution, enforcement, etc. Home Principal Secretary Asit Tripathy, who outlined the issues for discussion, later told the media that the CCTNS is an intra-net system, through which all 534 police stations along with DIG DG offices and the police headquarters would be connected. The crime and criminal records would be in digitised form which would facilitate crime investigation and tracking. The system has 10 major components and there has been substantial progress in eight components. The system would be functional in all police stations by March 2017, he informed.
Available data show that around 100-per cent progress has been achieved in the components like site survey, site preparations hardware delivery, hardware commission, data centre commissioning core application, software installation and data digitisation. Data migration and further development of the citizen’s portal have been expedited.
The network connectivity has been around 97 per cent. The target is to complete the entire work by March 2017. A total amount of around `35.36 crore has been received from the Centre for the project, and the expenditure has been around 90 per cent. Besides, the State Government has provided `14.61 crore for additional features and citizen-centric services against which utilisation has been to the tune of 76 per cent.