CCTNS pilot project to be launched tomorrow

Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde will launch the pilot programme of Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) here.

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.

The Rs 2,000 crore project, approved in 2009, is running three years behind schedule.

CCTNS is a Mission Mode Project under the National e-Governance Plan of Government of India.