Govt approves implementation ICJS project worth Rs 3,375 crore

New Delhi, February 18

The government on Friday approved implementation of the Inter-Operable Criminal Justice System (ICJS) project of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) at a total cost of Rs. 3,375 crore during the period from 2022-23 to 2025-26.

This is going to be Phase II of the ICJS project, which will be a step towards ensuring effective and modern policing, officials in the MHA said, adding that it would be implemented as a Central Sector Scheme.

The ICJS system would be made available through a dedicated and secure cloud-based Information Technology (IT) infrastructure with high-speed connectivity, they said.

The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) would be responsible for the implementation of the project in association with National Informatics Center (NIC) and this would be implemented in collaboration with the States and Union Territories (UTs).

According to the officials in the Phase-I of the ICJS project, individual IT systems have been implemented and stabilised and also search of records have been enabled on these systems.

Under Phase-II, the system is going to be built on the principle of ‘one data, one entry’; whereby data is entered only once in one pillar and the same is then available in all other pillars without the need to re-enter the data in each pillar.

The five pillars in the system are Police (Crime and Criminal Tracking and Network System – CCTN), e-Forensics for forensic labs, e-Courts for courts, e-Prosecution for public prosecutors and e-prisons for prisons.