Government to sanction Rs60 crore for new university; programmes to start from June.
Chief minister Narendra Modi, who had announced the establishment of a defence (Raksha Shakti) university a few months back, is likely to sanction its start from the academic session of June 2010 with various diploma, under-graduate and post-graduate courses on offer.
Highly placed sources in the state government said, “The state government has planned to allocate Rs60 crore for the establishment of the Gujarat defence university and the academic year will start from June. Land of 300 acres has been allocated at Lavad village on Himmatnagar-Chiloda highway near Gandhinagar. The admissions notice will be published very soon.
Initially, the university will offer diploma and degree courses in police science, weapon science, crime investigation, education of law, criminal behavioural studies, etc.”
The sources added that director-general of the university OP Mathur (former police commissioner, Ahmedabad), additional director-general of the university Vikas Sahay and others have been appointed on the governing board. Many persons from various academic fields will be appointed shortly. A temporary office and premises have been allocated at old Ahmedabad range IG office in Meghaninagar area and new mental hospital area in Shaibaug area. The new university building will take around two years to be constructed. Till then the university will function from Ahmedabad. A bill had already been passed by the state assembly July 2009 assembly session.
Sources further said that for the first time the state government is likely to start the state home department’s Police Wide Area Network (PWAN) which will connect all state government’s police agencies and police stations. A trial run is already underway.
PWAN will help the state government in monitoring all crime records online. Details of FIRs, criminal cases, police officials will be available on real time base to the state government.
PWAN will also help state police in nabbing criminals and keeping a tab on them. Like if police arrest any suspect in Vapi who is involved in a case in Porbandar or elsewhere in the state, then police can check the record on real time bases. Finger print record of the criminal which usually took two to three months to scan will now be possible to scan in few seconds or minutes. Moreover it will help in keeping police records in an organised way.
“The central government has allocated only Rs47 crore against Rs95 crore demanded for the state police modernisation. The state government had demanded the fund for buying new weapons, creating policing infrastructure, etc. For the last four years the central government has been cutting short the police modernisation fund of Gujarat. The state had requested the allocation of more funds after the Ahmedabad serial blasts and Mumbai terror attack but unfortunately the central government has not accepted the proposal,” said the sources.
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