Centre has awarded the Assam Police for "good practices" under the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS), an e-governance project, said an official release on Saturday.
The award was given for citizen centric service delivery, in which the state police has automated passport verification and Permanent Residential Certificate (PRC) services using the online CCTNS, added the release.
"Earlier, manual passport police verification used to take a considerable time, which has been reduced to a maximum of 21 days as per passport requirements. Similarly for PRC, the students need not submit the police verification separately now, which was delaying the entire process," it said.
The Ministry of Home Affairs also awarded Anil Kumar Jha, Special Director General (CID) of the force, who is also the nodal officer to carry out the CCTNS project in Assam Police, said, "We have been working on for many years to successfully implement the project. We are happy to receive the award as it is a recognition of our hard work. It would be our endeavour to further improve our public delivery system through the CCTNS."
The award was handed over to the Assam Police on October 30 during the two-day conference on "CCTNS–Good practices and Success Stories" organised by the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) in New Delhi.
