In order to control crimes and for better policing operations, Goa Police has introduced the e-beat system in the state.
The Chief Minister of Goa, Mr. Pramod Sawant launched the first of its kind “E Beat Book App” indigenously developed by the students of Government Engineering College for Goa Police, on 7 Feb, 2024.
Present on the occasion was DGP Goa Jaspal Singh IPS, IGP Goa Omveer Singh Bishnoi IPS, SP North and Crime Nidhin Valsan, an IPS officer of 2012 batch, Principal GEC Dr. Krupashankara M.S., Dean IT Nilesh Faldessai, and other dignitaries.
Read in detail about the e-beat system, an initiative of North Goa SP Nidhin Valsan – How an IPS Officer’s Idea Reduced Goa’s e-Beat System Project Cost From 1 Crore to Just 5 Lakh!
The Chief Minister congratulated the students of GEC and Goa Police Department and expressed that E-Beat book will ensure transparency and accountability and he will implement the same in other departments in the field as well.
This is the first time in the country that students are developing solution for a State Police department. In market this app costs more than half a crore. The students developed this app free of cost, under the MOU signed between Goa Police and GEC. The app can be given to other Police Organisations as well on demand at nominal rates.
The good part is that this system is being developed by local engineering students. This app will enable officers to retrieve information about any beat in the state with a click. Earlier, the department tried to develop this app from private companies, but they demanded a high amount of money, almost a whopping 1 crore! Then, 2012 batch IPS officer and North Goa SP, Mr. Nidhin Valsan, thought of an idea to get it developed by local engineering college students.
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Amazingly, it worked! And cost of the project reduced drastically to just 5 lakhs! Thus, the department will save almost 95 lakhs rupees of government money.
