Hon’ble Shri Nitish Kumar, Chief Minister, Bihar on 25.04.2013 inaugurated Prisons ERP System at Model Central Prison, Beur, Patna from the “Samvad”, CM Secretariat, Patna through videoconferencing.

Shri Amir Subhani, IAS, Principal Secretary, Home Department, Bihar, Shri Abhayanand, IPS, DGP, Bihar, Shri Anand Kishore, IAS, IG Prisons, Shri Anil Kumar, ADGP, Bihar Police Housing Board, Dr. Sitansu S. Jena Chairman, NIOS, New Delhi,  Shri Rajiv Prakash Saxena, Deputy Director General, NIC, Shri Santosh Kumar, SIO NIC-Bihar, Shri Shashi Kant Sharma, Technical Director, NIC, New Delhi, Shri Ashok Kumar, DGM, NICSI, Shri Navin Kumar, SSA, NIC - Bihar were also present on this occasion.

The base of the prisons ERP system are the PMS (Prisons Management System) and VMS (Visitor Management System) which has been developed by the ePrisons Division at NIC, New Delhi. Besides this other eight major modules Online visitors’ appointment (eprisons.bih.nic.in), Stock Management System, Gate Management System, Prisoners Wage Management System, Hospital Management System, Personnel Management System, Prisons Treasury Accounts Management System, Arms & Ammunition Management System have been developed by the ePrisons Group of Bihar.

The system has been started at Beur Jail Patna as a pilot project and it shall be extended to 55 other jails of Bihar.