NATGRID
What is NATGRID?
- NATGRID (or National Intelligence Grid) is an attached office under the Ministry of Home Affairs which aims to create an online database for collating scattered pieces of information of core security agencies and putting them on one platform.
- The 26/11 attacks on Mumbai (2008) led to the exposure of several weaknesses in India’s intelligence gathering and action networks.
- The project, initially started in 2009, is an online database for collating scattered pieces of information and putting them together on one platform.
- The NATGRID links intelligence and investigation agencies. At least 10 Central government agencies, such as the Intelligence Bureau, Research and Analysis Wing and others will have access to the data on the secured platform.
- The 10 user agencies will be linked independently with certain databases which will be procured from 21 providing organisations including telecom, tax records, bank, immigration etc. to generate intelligence inputs.
- The data recovery centre of the NATGRID has been constructed in Bengaluru and its headquarters is nearing completion in Delhi.
Why in News?
- The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has curtailed the tenure of the Chief Executive Officer of the NATGRID and moved him to the Border Security Force (BSF).
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