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The Prison Division of NIC has developed a utility for integrating ODBC compliant databases in the vertical as well as horizontal manner. It is primarily developed using .NET framework. However, if required, the web service can be deployed in the open source environment also. At the user domains, the utility has been customized to fetch the incremental data from the domain tables, update the upload-status of the record uploaded, need based fetching of the selected data in the domain tables along with insertion and updation of data into buffer tables, located at the domains. At the Central Schedular, the system utility connects all domains and start selecting incremental data from all domains, updates the upload status and inserts/updates data in all the domains where it is defined to be inserted. This utility has been made operational at NIC Delhi and Himachal Pradesh. It is working perfectly in tune with the data requirements of Police, Court and Prisons of Mandi District as desired by the Hon’ble Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh. ePrisons application of NIC has been installed at NIC-HP Shimla and made operational at three jails: Kanda, Mandi and Shimla of Himachal Pradesh. This database integrator developed for CJDS is tested thoroughly and is available for any NIC division looking to integrate this utility with their own applications/projects, where database integration is required both vertically and horizontally.