Punjab government allocates Rs 50 billion for seven PPIC&C centres

The provincial government has earmarked Rs 50 billion for the establishment of Punjab police integrated communication, command and control (PPIC&C) center in Lahore and six other cities under its annual development programme (ADP) for 2017-18 and an additional amount of Rs 3.5 billion was also allocated for information technology and governance sector.
According to budget documents, the government allocated a sum of Rs 3.5 billion for governance and IT-sector for the implementation of various projects mainly supported by Punjab police, home department, Punjab Information Technology Board, Lahore High Court and excise, taxation and narcotics control department. Under the category of special initiatives, the government has also allocated Rs 50 billion for the establishment of PPIC3 in six other districts including Multan, Rawalpindi, Sargodha, Bahawalpur, Faisalabad and Gujranwala.
The targets and major initiatives fixed for FY 2017-18 include expansion of the project titled "Computerization of police stations in Punjab" which would improve law and order situation in the province through comprehensive automation of police station, case flow management system in the Lahore High Court and district courts through ongoing project titled 'New IT initiatives at Lahore High Court, Lahore, and District Courts (Phase I).
Under the project of computerization of police stations in Punjab, sources said that police officials have been deployed after the completion of desks at police stations. They added that most of police stations have been equipped with this technology in Lahore while these desks are yet to be established in other districts.
In order to improve service delivery of justice to general public, the documents suggested the provincial government launched a new project titled "Automation of Case and Courts Management System at District Courts, Lahore." The funds have also been allocated for expansion of ongoing project of e-stamping and expansion of another major initiative "establishment of citizen facilitation center e-Khidmat Markaz, in 27 districts. In addition, initiatives related to mapping of development in IT and governance sector in the province in order to integrate the systems with finical procedures has also been planned for FY 2017-18.
During FY 2016-17, an amount of Rs 13.95 billion was allocated to the governance and IT sector including Rs 11.132 billion for establishment of Punjab police integrated communication, command and control center, Lahore. The major milestones achieved during FY2016-17 are completion of land records management and information systems project (Phase-I), completion of citizen feedback monitoring program (CFMP), completion of project establishment of video conferencing facility for Punjab government and completion of digitization/ computerization of Public prosecution department and development of monitoring and coordination system (Phase-II).