14,000 POLICE STATIONS TO BE INTERCONNECTED
New Delhi
The Times of India (Delhi edition)
Aiming to beef up the security apparatus in states, the government has embarked upon a project under which about 14,000 police stations and 6,000 other police offices will be interconnected for evolution of an IT-enabled sophisticated tracking system of crime investigation and detection of criminals.
The nationwide project, Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS), is estimated to cost Rs 2,000 crore during the 11th Five Year Plan, Ajay Maken, minister of state for home affairs, said in LS.
WHAT USE MICROCARDS?
DNA (Bangalore edition)
The horticulture department has embarked on a mammoth exercise of handing out ID cards to walkers at Lalbagh and Cubbon Park. This comes at a time when the prestigious Unique ID project, led by Nandan Nilekani, is already underway. The UID, once in place, will make the likes of such cards redundant.
SOON, BOOK FILM TICKET, PAY TAX AT E-SAMPARK CENTRES
Varinder Bhatia, Chandigarh
The Indian Express
Soon, e-Sampark centres in the city will offer more. From booking flight, railway and movie tickets to getting vehicle and marriage registered, these centres will have everything on the menu.
For five years, the 10 e-Sampark centres in the city have been providing 28 services.
The five-year contract between the Chandigarh Administration’s with the Wipro Consulting Services to run these centres ended recently.
Now, the Administration has decided to renew the contract on the existing business model — Build Operate Transfer (BOT). Like earlier, there won’t by any transaction or service fee.
In a presentation on Monday, Wipro Consulting Services, in agreement with top UT officials, proposed to introduce the new facilities.
Talking to Newsline, UT Director of Information Technology Manjit Singh Brar said, “The success of e-Sampark centres has been phenomenal. We’re gong to make these centres more user-friendly. Certain new facilities are going to be added. Also, more such centres will come up in the city.”
HP MOBILE GOVERNANCE
The Financial Express
The Himachal Pradesh government has switched to mobile-governance, through which information will be available through SMS. Expanding the scope of m-governance, chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal on Tuesday launched new services through SMS. As part of SMS gateway programme launched in September last by state’s information technology department, a citizen can get complete information of their polling station by sending a SMS to a code ie 56300, principal secretary IT B K Aggarwal.
NILEKANI PITCHES UID TO OFFSET BOGUS RATION CARDS
New Delhi
The Financial Express
Even as agriculture minister Sharad Pawar revealed on Tuesday that over 1.5 crore bogus ration cards have been unearthed in the last two months alone, Nandan Nilekani is trying to get states to log on to the unique identification platform to ensure that subsidised PDS food grain reaches intended beneficiaries.
“We are working with the food & civil supplies department in the agriculture ministry to explain to states the advantages of using UIDs for schemes like PDS. We have held one workshop in the Capital attended by all states. We have also visited 12 states and explained to them how the UID would work,” Unique Identification Authority of India chairman Nandan Nilekani said at an Idea Exchange programme hosted by The Express Group.
Nilekani, co-founder and former chairman of Infosys Technologies, refused to name the states that have evinced interest in the UIDAI’s pitch so far. However, from what Pawar told the Lok Sabha during Question Hour, some states have begun to take the problem of fake ration cards seriously.
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