The Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde is slated to launch pilot programme of Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems (CCTNS) here on Friday. The CCTNS is a Mission Mode Project under the National e-Governance Plan of the Government.

Also a conference of Chief Secretaries and Director Generals of Police of States is being convened here on Friday to discuss issues regarding crime against women and atrocities on Scheduled Castes (SCs) / Scheduled Tribes (STs).

The conference will be addressed by Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, Union Minister for Social Justice & Empowerment Kumari Selja, Union Minister for Women and Child Development Krishna Tirath and senior officials from the Union Home Ministry.

The CCTNS aims at creating a comprehensive and integrated system for enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of policing through adopting of principle of e-Governance. The Project also includes the 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`.

The Conference of Chief Secretaries and Director Generals of Police of States will discuss the issues relating to safety and security of women and SCs/STs, issues and challenges in combating crime against women, strategies to eliminate violence against women, analysis of recent statistics of various crimes against women, infanticide and female foeticide, so called honour killings, acid attack on women and victim compensation scheme.

The conference will also discuss atrocities against the weaker sections, institutional mechanisms and capacity building and Standard operating procedures (SOPs), amendments in the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 and Criminal Law Amendment Bill 2012.