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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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Khapri RoB expansion proposal goes missing?

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Khapri Railway Over Bridge


By Dheeraj Fartode 

Strange as it may sound, but the file pertaining to widening of Khapri railway overbridge (RoB) has gone ‘missing’ from the headquarters of National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) at New Delhi. As ‘The Hitavada’ went about following-up the matter, the replies from the officials left one baffled. Officials, right from local office up to those in headquarters, were passing the buck to one another.
The PID office of NHAI sent the documents to Member (Finance), seeking approval to the extension project. However, Member (Finance) Satish Chandra, told ‘The Hitavada’ that they had sent the file to its General Manager (Maharashtra) of NHAI Anil Sharma. But, the latter denied having received any documents pertaining to the project.
Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Dr C P Joshi, during foundation stone laying ceremony of four-laning of road up to river Wainganga on Nagpur-Bhandara portion of National Highway-6, at Mauda on May 24, 2012; had announced that existing two-lane RoB at Khapri would be expanded to four-lane. The RoB lies on NH-7 in Nagpur-Hyderabad section. Joshi’s announcement came in response to the demand made by then Union Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Mukul Wasnik.
Post-announcement, NHAI local office made a proposal and sent it to Member (Finance), NHAI, New Delhi, in July 2012. However, Member (Finance) said that the file was put-up before General Manager NHAI (Maharashtra) Anil Sharma. But, Sharma said that no proposal for Khapri was received by his office till date.
The proposal mentioned that length of about 800 metre from Km 8.400 to Km 9.200 (Khapri RoB portion including the approaches) is the only two-lane stretch on NH-7. This two-lane RoB stretch is a major bottleneck for smooth flow of traffic. During peak hours, there is heavy traffic congestion on RoB at Km 8.600 near Khapri village.
NH-6, NH-7, and NH-69 pass through Nagpur city. The movement of traffic from NH-6 to NH-7 and vice-versa is through inner ring road constructed by state PWD at radius of about 6 Kms from the centre of the city. Heavy vehicular traffic on NH-7 (Nagpur-Hyderabad) section crosses Khapri RoB at Km 8.600. Nagpur city is developing at a fast pace along NH-7. Further, MIDC at Butibori, Vidarbha Cricket Association stadium at Jamtha, and Multimodal International Hub Airport at Nagpur (MIHAN) also are located along NH-7. In view of the traffic of around 30,000 vehicles per hour/per Km (PCU) with frequent traffic jam at Khapri RoB, there is urgent need of construction of additional two-lane RoB, the proposal mooted.

Rs 12 crore required for construction of RoB As per preliminary estimates, approximate cost of the additional 12 metre wide (two-lane) RoB works out to Rs 12 crore. NHAI, Nagpur, had appointed consultants and requested to finalise general arrangement drawing (GAD) of this RoB in consultation with Central Railway. The GAD was submitted by NHAI, Nagpur with Rs 6 lakh. 


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