20 billion aims at creating a comprehensive and integrated system for enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of policing at the police station level through adoption of principles of e-governance.

It also provides for the creation of a nationwide networked infrastructure for evolution of IT-enabled state-of-the-art tracking system around investigation of crime and detection of criminals in real time.

The home minister, who was impressed with New York's National Counter Terrorism Center (NATC) during his US visit last week, said he wanted to replicate the same in India as well as enlarge the scope of the Mutli-Agency Centre that analyses intelligence inputs.

'There is the need to enact a model police Act. Mega-city policing is a new requirement, and there is much to learn from the experiences of other mega-cities. I wish to sharply upgrade our Forensic Science Laboratories and make them among the best in the world.'

'Prison reform is also on my agenda,' he said.

The home minister exhorted police chiefs to throw up more ideas and suggestions that would, when implemented, give people a security system they deserve and that will render India a country that is safe for all its people and for all those who visit it.