MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS

• 23.1. CRIME AND CRIMINAL TRACKING NETWORK AND SYSTEMS (CCTNS)
• • Provide Citizen Centric Police Services via a web portal
• • Pan India search on National database of Crime & Criminal records
• • Crime and Criminal reports at State and Center
• • Computerization of Police Processes
• • It is a plan scheme conceived in the light of experience of a non-plan scheme namely - Common Integrated Police Application (CIPA) (2004-09).
• • It aims at creating a comprehensive and integrated system for enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of policing through adopting of principle of e-Governance and creation of a nationwide networking infrastructure for evolution of IT-enabled-state-of-the-art tracking system around 'Investigation of crime and detection of criminals'.
• • Ministry of Home Affairs and National Crime Records Bureau would play a key role in planning the program in collaboration with the Police leadership within States.
• • Digital Police Portal has been launched under the CCTNS project: It will enable citizens to register FIRs online and the portal will initially offer seven Public Delivery Services in 34 States & UTs, like Person and Address Verification e.g. of employees, tenants, nurses etc, permission for hosting Public Events, Lost & Found Articles and Vehicle theft etc.
• • The Inter-operable Criminal Justice System (ICJS) aims to integrate the CCTNS project with the e-courts and e-prisons databases in the first instance and with the other pillars of the criminal justice system - Forensics, Prosecution, Juvenile homes and a nationwide Fingerprint data base of criminals in a phased manner. 
• 23.2. BORDER AREA DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (BADP)
• • To meet the special developmental needs and well being of the people living in remote and inaccessible areas situated near the international border
• • To saturate the border areas with the entire essential infrastructure through convergence of Central/State/ BADP/Local schemes and participatory approach.
• • The Department of Border Management, Ministry of Home Affairs has been implementing the Border Area Development Programme (BADP) through the State Governments as part of a comprehensive approach to Border Management.
• • It is an important intervention of the Central Government to bring about development of border areas by supplementing the State Plan Funds to bridge the gaps in socio- economic infrastructure on one hand and improving the security environment in border areas on the other.
• • The States and UTs covered are Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal along with UT of Jammu & Kashmir and UT of Laddakh.
• • Under this programme priority is given to the areas closer to the border.
• • The implementation of BADP is on participatory and decentralized basis through the Panchayati Raj institutions, Autonomous Councils and local bodies.
• • Recent Changes:
• o For comprehensive and all-round development of border villages, it has been decided to develop 61 model villages.
• o Each model village will provide all basic facilities like primary health centre, primary education, community centre, connectivity, drainage, drinking water, etc. to enable sustainable living in border areas.
• o BADP Online Management System has been launched for better planning, monitoring and implementation of various projects under BADP.
• o Border States can submit their respective Annual Action Plans online and receive approvals from Ministry of Home Affairs in electronic mode which will bring in transparency in the sanction process and improve quality of planning and implementation. 
• 23.3. CYBER CRIME PREVENTION AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN (CCPWC)
• To have an effective mechanism to handle cybercrimes against women and children in the country
• • Main features of scheme are:
• o Online cybercrime reporting platform
• o One national level cyber forensic laboratory
• o Training of Police officers, judges & prosecutors
• o Cybercrime awareness activities
• o Research & Development
• • Central Cybercrime Reporting Portal has also been launched to report complaints pertaining to Child Pornography/ Child Sexual Abuse Material or sexually explicit content.
• o One can also report complaints pertaining to cybercrimes such as mobile crimes, online and social media crimes, online financial frauds etc. through this portal. 
• 23.4. OTHER SCHEMES
• Assistance to States and UTs for Narcotics Control
• • It aims to assist state governments and Union Territories which are contributing in controlling the inter-state and cross border drug trafficking. Under it financial assistance will be provided to all the anti- narcotics agencies.
• • The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) being the national nodal agency for drug administration will process the requests from state governments.
• UDAAN
• • It is a Special Industry Initiative for J&K funded by Ministry of Home Affairs and implemented by National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC).
• • It is focused on providing skills and job opportunities to youth of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) who are graduate, post graduate and three-year diploma engineers.
• • Simultaneously, the aim is also to provide exposure to corporate India towards the rich talent pool available in J&K.
• 'Bharat Ke Veer'
• It is an IT based platform, with an objective to enable willing donors to contribute towards the family of a braveheart who sacrificed his/her life in line of duty. Amount so donated will be credited to the account of ‘Next of Kin’ of those Central Armed Police Force/Central Para Military Force soldiers.
• Modernisation of Police Forces (MPF)
• • Cabinet has given its approval for implementation of umbrella scheme of "Modernisation of Police Forces (MPF)" for years 2017-18 to 2019-20.
• • The objective of the scheme is to gradually reduce the dependence of the State Governments on the Army and the Central Armed Police Forces to control internal security and law and order situations by equipping the State Police Forces adequately and strengthening their training infrastructure.
• ‘e-Sahaj’ portal
• The portal allows organizations/indviduals to apply for security clearance in certain sensitive sectors before issue of licence/permit, permission, contract etc, to companies/ bidders/individuals by the administrative Ministry.
• BOLD-QIT
• Union Home Minister launched BOLD-QIT (Border Electronically Dominated QRT Interception Technique) under Comprehensive Integrated Border Management System (CIBMS) on Indo-Bangladesh border in Dhubri district of Assam, as an effective deterrence against illegal infiltration.