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AI Joins the Force: Maharashtra Police Deploys ‘Crime-OS’ for Smarter Investigations

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By Dheeraj Fartode  Imagine a police officer uploads an FIR and within seconds, an AI assistant begins planning the investigation. It write official letters, scan bank data and spot suspicious transactions. It sounds like science fiction - but it’s now reality in Maharashtra. The state police have started using Crime-OS, a powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool developed under the MARVEL project (Maharashtra Research and Vigilance for Enhanced Law Enforcement). This tool, built in partnership with the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Nagpur, works like the co-pilot feature in Microsoft Office - but to solve crimes. It helps police save valuable time and reduces the heavy workload of investigations. Assistant Superitendent of Police (ASP) Deepak Agrawal explained that police investigations usually take a lot of time and effort. Crime-OS is designed to ease that burden. “For example, if a fraud case FIR is uploaded, the tool automatically picks out important information. It t...
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Nagpur Municipal Corporation seeks Rs 6,320 crore aid from Finance Commission

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With tremendous increase in NMC’s responsibilities, its sources of revenue, recovery, new taxes had not increased

By Dheeraj Fartode
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Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) general body, on Saturday, passed a proposal seeking special grants of a whopping Rs 6,320 crore from 4th Maharashtra State Finance Commission to boost developmental works in the city. Based on population census of 2011, the proposal seeks additional grant.
During discussion on the proposal, Mayor Prof Anil Sole said city’s total area was 217.56 sq km and population was 24.05 lakh as per 2011 census. Population of the city would increase with growth of five-star industrial area in Butibori, Multimodal International Hub and Airport at Nagpur (MIHAN), emerging markets, Metro Region development etc. NMC was bound to play more effective role in city’s development against this backdrop.

With tremendous increase in NMC’s responsibilities, its sources of revenue, recovery, new taxes had not increased. This strained NMC’s resources while meeting developmental needs of the city. Already, NMC had prepared plans for developmental works till the year 2016. There was a gap between present financial strength of NMC and its requirements, Sole said while stressing the need for filling this gap in accordance with recommendations of the Finance Commission. He listed out several works and aid required from 4th State Finance Commission.

NMC sought Rs 6,320 crore for various developmental works from 4th State Finance Commission. Of this, amount of Rs 3,765 crore was sought for construction of storm water drains, Rs 1,260 crore sought for treatment of entire waste water generated in the city, Rs 530 crore for rivers and lakes, Rs 345 crore for repairs and development of roads, Rs 270 crore for energy infrastructure, and Rs 150 crore for solid waste management. After giving details of the assistance sought from 4th State Finance Commission, Sole appealed the NMC general body to approve the demand.

Already, the proposal in this regard was approved by NMC Standing Committee on December 21, 2012. After approval of general body, the proposal would be sent to 4th State Finance Commission.
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