The Mandya police have secured the Centre’s gold medal and cash award for their “innovative e-governance and effective utilisation of modern technology.”
In June last, the department developed a software to trace the owners of unclaimed vehicles lying in police stations across the district.
The Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances had chosen the project ‘Effective vehicles database management to trace the owners of unclaimed vehicles lying in police stations’ for the National e-governance Award in the category of ‘Best district-level initiative in citizen-centric service.’
The award carrying a purse of Rs. 2 lakh and also a trophy will be presented during the 18th National Conference on e-governance in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, in the last week of January, according to Bhushan Gulabrao Borase, Superintendent of Police.
Ubiquitous problem
A large number of vehicles are lying in police stations across the country.
Tracing the owners of recovered vehicles is a Herculean task as vehicle thieves immediately change the registration numbers.
This is what prompted the department to develop the software.
“This project is a systematic step towards addressing the problem.
“Within a few months, we traced owners of 600 unclaimed vehicles,” Mr. Borase said.
The software could accommodate the database of vehicles for the entire State.
Meanwhile, the Mandya police are planning to develop a mobile-based application for the same software.
“This will help the police officer on duty to check if the vehicle is stolen or not,” Mr. Borase told this correspondent.
Mr. Borase thanked his team members — Akram Ali Khan and S. Chandrashekhar — and the then engineering students — N. Navneeth, H.N. Nithin, and N. Yashvanth — for developing the software.
