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Judiciary by eliminating the need for the physical production of prisoners in the court; the prisoners may be produced electronically through video conferencing. This also saves time, money and time of police force.
3. Services provided
The project is primarily delivering G2G services with mixture of G2C services. Some of the key services that are being facilitated are: Complete record of prisoners individual and family details with health and educational background Complete record of activities performed by prisoner for the purpose of grant of remission by jail superintendent and Inspector-General as well as for inflicting punishment for breach of jail discipline. Updated record of Correctional program attended by Prisoner Record of wages kept in prisoners account for work performed in Prison Prisoners case details, dates of production in different jails Biometric features of prisoners Prisoners history ticket Complete record of visitors meeting prisoner Automatic refusal of visitor to meet a prisoner having visitor at frequency more than that provided in Jail Manual Web based MIS in offline mode with data being pushed everyday using SWAN.
8. Replication
This project has been replicated across all the prisons in the state of Jharkhand.
9. Implementation model
The project has been conceptualized, implemented and funded by the state government. The software has been developed by the National Informatics Center, NIC.
10. Technologies
The software is running in two tire architecture. a. Client Server environment b. SQL Server 2000 as data base c. VB is used as front end.
The MIS website is used by the authorities to know the details of the prisoners for better decision making. The site also helps the jail authorities to manage the jail in uniform manner. Amendment of Cr.P.C. to allow production of prisoner through video-linkage
Further, as all the projects are prison oriented, all the prison Superintends, Jailors and Officers at the prison headquarter, particularly Mr. Deepak Kumar Vidyarthi, A.I.G. Prisons were keenly involved. Likewise, the video conferencing system at the Court end for the production of prisoners from jail required the involvement of District and Session Judge and concerned Chief Judicial Magistrate. The Acting Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court, Mr. M.Y. Iqbal, took keen interest in the said project.
Record of wages kept in prisoners account for work performed in Prison Prisoners case details, dates of production in different jails Biometric features of prisoners Prisoners history ticket Complete record of visitors meeting prisoner Adherence to Jail manual in terms of number of visits by visitor to meet a prisoner Web based MIS in offline mode with data being pushed everyday using SWAN. Some of the benefits that have accrued to various stakeholders due to this project are: Benefits to Prisons o Saving time and money on the movement of criminals for production in courts o Adherence to service levels in terms of number of visits to the jail by visitors to prisoners o Records of the criminals including their biometrics which ensures that the prisoners are not duplicated / someone else does not take place of a criminal in the jail while the criminal is allowed outside. O Information and MIS reports available to the top officials for planning and taking timely and informed decisions. Benefits to Prisoners and Visitors Adherence to jail manual means that the visitors and prisoners rights are not violated Capturing of the records of the criminals and also the progress in terms of correctional intervention ensures that there are better chances of the criminals being absorbed in the mainstream once they are out of the jail.
Cultural change to ensure that the employees support the system Solution: Workshops were conducted along with a general awareness campaign about the project and the benefits that would accrue to the respective stakeholders. This ensured that the employees supported the system implementation and cooperated for the same. Challenge Lack of computer skills amongst employees Solution: Extensive training of the employees for using computers and the application developed for the project was undertaken to ensure that the system once function could be used effectively. Challenge Convincing the government regarding the project Solution: The project team did extensive investigations on the ills of the manual system and communicated the benefits to all stakeholders due to the implementation of the project. Along with the persistence of the project team and support of related stakeholders such as courts, police etc. support for the project was mobilized.