Government sets up committee on Natgrid

A high-level committee, headed by the Union Home Secretary, has been set up to allay apprehension over data sharing by various government agencies with Natgrid, the proposed real-time intelligence sharing setup to track terror activities.

In the aftermath of 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai Central government decided to connect databases of core intelligence services to collect comprehensive patterns of intelligence that can be readily accessed.

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As per the official sources, the committee, constituted by the government, will discuss with various stakeholders of National Intelligence Grid, Natgrid, like IB, R-AW, CBI, CBDT and remove their apprehension on breach of security and misuse of information.

The committee will also hold discussions with the state governments for chalking out strategy on how to bring synergy in data sharing, coordination and dissemination of information.

Natgrid seeks to synergies more than 20 categories of database from agencies like, railways, banks, airlines, credit card companies, immigration and others, and make it available to the law enforcement officers.