NDA government okays a project outlay of Rs 2000 crore for implementation of CCTNS: MHA

NEW DELHI: "Govt has approved a project outlay of Rs 2000 crore for implementation of Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems," the Ministry of Home Affairs tweeted on Tuesday.

Tagged #MHAinParliament, the tweet explained that the " CCTNS covers digitizing the way critical information such as criminal records to be stored and shared among law enforcement officials".

The CCTNS was approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs in 2009 with an initial outlay of Rs 2000 crore, and is being implemented as a mission mode project under the government’s National e-Governance Plan. It is being implemented centrally by the National Crime Records Bureau under the MHA, and has overshot its initial timelines resulting from having to manage multiple vendors and State actors.

The ambitious CCTNS was conceived by former Home Minister P Chidambaram after the Mumbai terror attacks,and aims to connect more than 15,000 police stations, and nearly 6,000 higher offices in 28 States and 7 union territories in the country to facilitate sharing of crime and criminal information that is updated immediately after collection on a central connected platform.