About a month after Home Minister P Chidambaram laid out his vision of the National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC), the Cabinet Committee on Security will consider a proposal to set-up the National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID). It is will be a key structure within NCTC.
NCTC is a one stop set-up to monitor almost any activity of yours, whether through your passport or to check on immigration details.
Documents that can be sought to seek details:- Passport
- Bank accounts
- Taxes, PAN card
- Ration card
- Voter I-card
- Airline, Railway travel
- Telephone documents
Who will access your details:
New agency to be set up (National Intelligence Grid)
Intelligence Bureau (IB), Research And Analysis Wing (RAW), Central Burau of Investigation (CBI), Defence Research Institute (DRI), National Investigative Agency (NIA), Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Economic Offences Wing (EOW).
Sources tell NDTV that the Revenue Department was initially reluctant to share income tax details with intelligence and investigative agencies.
While issues of privacy and the possibility of misuse of the information still remain, investigative agencies will be able to access information at a click of button, reducing time.
At present investigative agencies follow a laborious and bureaucratic process of seeking information from individual database managers. If the NATGRID is cleared, the NCTC will only be a few steps away because other structures are already in place.
