NATGRID

NATGRID
26/11 attacks on Mumbai exposed several weaknesses in India’s intelligence gathering and action networks. So, Chidambaram came up with the idea of National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) NATGRID will integrate 21 categories of data from agencies like
1. Banks,
2. Railways and airlines,
3. Income tax department,
4. Credit card companies etc.
5. Visa and immigration
*. This combined data will be made available to 11 central agencies including the R&AW, the National Investigation Agency, the CBI, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, the Intelligence Bureau, the Narcotics Control Bureau and the Enforcement Directorate to help them prevent terrorist attacks and criminal activities.
*. NATGRID Will become fully operational in 2013-14
P. Raghu Raman is heading NATGRID.He was working with Mahindra.