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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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Only 50-60% plants survive after plantation drive

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Planting trees is a noble cause, seeing that they should survive is also important. Whopping 40-50 per cent trees do not survive in Nagpur district after annual tree plantation. Irregular watering, animals eating up plants and excessive heat are the reasons behind the 50-60 per cent survival ratio of plants.
In addition, Forest officials pointed out shortage of funds as one of the major reasons behind dying of plants. “Shortage of funds after outbreak of Covid-19 is one of the major reasons behind the drop in survival ratio,” said senior official Geeta Nannaware of the Social Forestry Wing of State Forest Department.
According to statistics, a total of 15,000 samplings were planted in 2016-17. Of them, 50.78 per cent of plants survived till May 2021. In 2017-18, 72,000 samplings were planted and 56.16 per cent survived till May 2021. Survival percentage for 1,91,496 saplings planted in 2018-19 was 59.77 per cent recorded in May this year. Whopping 10,74,660 saplings were planted in 2019-20 in Nagpur district under the ambitious 33 crore tree plantations drive across the State. The scheme was initiated by the then State Forest minister Sudhir Mungantiwar. Of these 10,74,660 planted trees, only 55 per cent survived till May 2021.
The forest official said that various plants with different stages of growth have been raised at 19 nursery centres in the Nagpur district. They have been provided with the necessary compost for plantation, she said and added that the department also takes up plantation drive along key roads through labourers and school students.
The Forest official said that maintenance of trees is the most important factor for survival of plnts. “We take care of the plants for the next three years after plantation. For that, a guard is being deployed at plantation sites. As per the norm, one guard needs to be deployed for a 2 km area. Due to shortage of funds, we are deploying one guard for three sites. Now, its become a hard task for the guard to take care of trees planted in such a large area of 6 km,” she said. The guards are tasked to provide protection to the plants from animals. In many cases, the Department covers trees with tree guard cover which saves the plants from animals, she said. “We are focusing on increasing the survival ration of plants,” she further said.
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