National intel grid set to function early 2020
New Delhi, Sept. 22: The Natgrid — a robust intelligence gathering mechanism related to immigration, banking, individual tax payers, air and train travels — is likely to be operational by January 2020, officials said on Sunday.
The work on the National Intelligence Grid (Natgrid), set up to track any terror suspect and prevent terrorist attacks with real time data, has been accelerated after Union home minister Amit Shah recently reviewed the progress of the `3,400 crore project, conceptualised following the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
“In all probability, the Natgrid will start functioning from early next year,” a home ministry official told PTI.
The Natgrid will have data related to all immigration entry and exit, banking and financial transactions, credit card purchases, telecom, individual tax payers, air flyers, train travellers besides others to generate intelligence inputs.
In the first phase, 10 users agencies and 21 service providers will be connected with the Natgrid.
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New Delhi, Sept. 22: The NATGRID — a robust intelligence gathering mechanism related to immigration, banking, individual tax payers, air and train travels — is likely to be operational by January 2020, officials said on Sunday.
The work on the national intelligence grid (NATGRID) set up to track any terror suspect and prevent terrorist attacks with real time data, has been accelerated after Union home minister Amit Shah recently reviewed the progress of the `3,400 crore project, conceptualised following the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
“In all probability, the NATGRID will start functioning from early next year,” a home ministry official told PTI.
The NATGRID will have data related to all immigration entry and exit, banking and financial transactions, credit card purchases, telecom, individual tax payers, air flyers, train travellers besides
others to generate intelligence inputs.
In the first phase, 10 users agencies and 21 service providers will be connected with the NATGRID while in the later stages 950 organisations and in subsequent years another 1,000 organisations will be connected with it.
The 10 agencies which will be able to access the NATGRID data on real time basis are: Intelligence Bureau (IB), Research & Analysis Wing (R&AW), Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Enforcement Directorate (ED), Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC), Directorate General of Central Excise and Intelligence (DGCEI) and Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB).
Initially, no state agencies will be given direct access to the NATGRID data.