About

The Scope of this project is to computerize and integrate all the activities related to prison and prisoner management in the jail. This application suite will provide the vital information about the inmates, lodged in the prisons, in real time environment to the prison officials and other entities, involved in Criminal Justice System. It will also facilitate online visit request and grievance redressal.

ePrisons application suite, developed by NIC, is cloud based product designed with easy to use GUI and embedded with a comprehensive security features. It can be easily adopted by any state prisons department with minimum customization efforts since all the possible customization features are parameterized and can be configured by the users. This application suite consists of three main products:

1. ePrisons MIS : Management Information System used at the prisons for their day to day regular activities; The major modules of ePrisons MIS are:

  • Prisoner Information Management System (PIMS);
  • Visitor Management System (eVisitor);
  • Hospital Management System (eHospital);
  • Legal Aid Management System;
  • Inventory Management System;
  • Prison Management System (PMS);
  • Police Intelligence System;
  • Court Monitoring; and
  • Kiosk Information.

2. NPIP: National Prisons Information Portal is a citizen centric portal showing statistical data of various prisons in the country

  • Visitors can book there visit request to meet their ward inside the prison through this portal;
  • Grievances with respect to their wards inside the prisons can also submitted through the portal; and
  • This portal also provides with inmate tracking facilities in a secured way to various investigating agencies.

3. Kara Bazaar: Portal for showcasing and selling the products manufactured in various prisons of the country by inmates.

Necessary platform required for on boarding for all the state prison departments are in place.

Key Features:

  • Available as SaaS from the NIC Cloud, which provides high availability, scalable and robust system to the users;
  • The solution is ready to adopted by any prison / stakeholder for free.
  • Parameterized and configurable gap aspects;
  • SMS and email alerts;
  • Equipped with necessary services required for integrating with other Criminal Justice System stakeholders; and
  • Authorization checks & validation to improve the data quality.

Services - To the Public:

  • Registration of visit request and Status query of that request;
  • SMS/eMail Alerts to the visitors;
  • Statistical information / drilled down Reports on national basis;
  • Sumission of grievance; and
  • KaraBazaar

Services - To the Prisons:

  • Controlled registration of prisoners (checking duplicity of prisoner’s entry to the jail);
  • Recording and tracking their movement activities and their management throughout their term inside the prison;
  • Well structured information about Availability of various reports (daily/Monthly) for administrative purpose;
  • Graphical and statistical reports for monitoring and informational purpose;
  • Enables the prison management to utilize the resources optimally;
  • Various alerts like Hearing, 436/436 A, parole jump, inventory, medicine etc for monitoring purpose.

Services - To the Courts:

  • Availability of CrPC 436 / 436 ‘A’/441 reports to court.
  • Availability of Nominal roll online to the court;
  • Alerts for jumping Parole/Interim Bail retrun due dates;
  • Availability of other information of the prisoner online to the court on demand.

Services - To the Police, Other investigating agencies:

  • Nationwide search for inmates and their complete profile;
  • Marking of Alert (eMail/SMS) at various events;
  • Reports of list and statistical format for a period which can be drilled down to individual jails

The procedure for applying the visit request is as follows:

  • Prospective visitors are requested to submit the visit details in the prescribed format as shown in the Registration page. The visit details as entered (registration number, date of visit and approval status) are communicated to the visitor through SMS / eMail;
  • The visit requested will be authenticated / verified by the officer to be visited through this eVisitor operational at the Ministry;
  • The current approval status of the visit can also be enquired by the visitor on this website by entering Reg.No.
  • The status of visit approval / change in visiting time will be communicated to the visitor through SMS / eMail;
  • Visitor pass will be issued to the approved visitors after capturing a photograph at the reception counter.
  • If visitor is earlier registered at least once with this eVisitor, he / she can refer his / her old registration number, mobile number or personal details for quick registration of his / her current visit at the Reception Counter.

The procedure for Submitting the grievance is as follows:

  • Prospective visitors are requested to submit the grievance details in the prescribed format as shown in the Grievance page. The Complaint details as entered (Name,Mobile number and Relation with Inmate) and Grievance details (Stae, Jail ,Prisoner name, age, gender, Grievance category and message) is submitted by the visitors.
  • The Grievance will be authenticated / verified by the officer through this -----
  • The current approval status of the grievance can also be enquired by the visitor on this website by entering Request Number
  • The status of Grievance will be communicated to the visitor through SMS / eMai
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  • Visitor pass will be issued to the approved visitors after capturing a photograph at the reception counter.
  • If visitor is earlier registered at least once with this portal, he / she can refer his / her old request number, mobile number or personal details for quick submission of his / her grievance..

The procedure for Tracking Inmates the grievance is as follows:

  • Citizen can search their relatives in correctional homes. Only authorized person can search the data base.
  • There is login id and password given to the authorised user.
  • After login Authorized person can search on the following parameters Personal Details, Crime Details, Movement Details and Fingerprint based search.