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The National Intelligence Grid Gets A Big Budget Upgrade For 2016-17
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The ambitious intelligence gathering mechanism National Intelligence Grid, or NATGRID, has been allocated twice the amount that it was allotted last year.
On the timelines, the minister wrote:
The idea of NATGRID came up in the aftermath of the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai in 2008. It was mooted by then-Home Minister P Chidambaram as part of a need to radically overhaul the country’s security and intelligence apparatus.
Through this upcoming intelligence grid, terrorist operations will be monitored through banking, finance and other networks. The relevant intelligence agencies will be able to access citizen data from several government departments who will share it with them through NATGRID in real time.
Senior IPS officer Ashok Patnaik is the chief executive officer of the National Intelligence Grid.
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