In New Delhi: IT consultancy firm Wipro is set to win a criminal tracking project contract to electronically link police stations across India and digitise criminal records. This is perhaps one of the largest e-governance projects available from the Indian government, which is set to digitally integrate at least 14,000 police stations as well as nearly 6,000 higher offices. The higher offices to be digitised would include district police headquarters, commissionerates and state police headquarters.
Wipro was the lowest bidder among eight finalists in the auction for the Rs. 2,000 crore Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) project, officials of the home ministry and the department of information technology (DIT) mentioned.
CCTNS is one of the 27 missions under the governments National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), which was unveiled in 2006. The project will also link state crime record bureaux with the National Crime Record Bureau to create a database that will have real-time access.
As the provider, Wipro will have to build core application software that the states will have to adopt. The initial contract for CAS is said to be around Rs40 crore, while each state will have to spend Rs. 60-70 crore to meet the requirements of the project. Home minister P. Chidambaram recently said the CCTNS project must meet its 2012 completion deadline under the 11th Five-year Plan.
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