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There are hundreds of such politicians enjoying large police armed guards, and despite public outcry, the Home Ministry has not been able to remove these privileges (Hindustan Times 2007; Nita 2007). The importance of the police to the politicians is seen in another organizational matter. In state politics, the Home is the most powerful ministry and, barring a few exceptions, only the chief minister occupies this position. Even at the level of the central government, the Home Ministry is considered as powerful as the Finance, Defense, and Foreign Ministries.
Computer usage was increasing across the country, and blogs, personal Web pages, as well as e-mails were becoming equally common. Computer applications were beginning to make inroads in the government, and in the police too, but e-governance and, moreover, use by the police personnel was slow. A large number of senior officers were indifferent to new technology and even took pride in displaying their ignorance of modern communications. However, the younger officers, more technology oriented and quick to adapt themselves to emerging trends, were different.
A number of police officers had begun to create Web pages for their departments and use computers in their work. Saravade looked around for officers who had their own personal e-mail addresses, which they were using for personal correspondence. These addresses were from the free e-mail services like Hotmail, Yahoo, Rediffmail and, later, Gmail. He also realized that people tend to be more possessive about their personal identities and take control of their e-mail addresses more than their official e-mail identities that were, in any case, restricted.