NATGRID

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Topics covered: About National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID)

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News Flash

The National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) is a robust intelligence gathering mechanism related to immigration, banking, individual taxpayers, air and train travels.

• The work on the NATGRID set up to track any terror suspect and prevent terrorist attacks with real time data, has been accelerated.
• It is likely to be operational by January 2020.

 

NATGRID

• The NATGRID will have data related to all immigration entry and exit, banking and financial transactions, credit card purchases, telecom, individual tax payers, air flyers, train travellers besides others to generate intelligence inputs.
• In the first phase, 10 agencies will be able to access the NATGRID data on real time basis.
• These are Intelligence Bureau, Research & Analysis Wing, Central Bureau of Investigation, Enforcement Directorate, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Financial Intelligence Unit, Central Board of Direct Taxes, Central Board of Excise and Customs, Directorate General of Central Excise and Intelligence and Narcotics Control Bureau.

 

Important Information

The data recovery centre of the NATGRID has been constructed in Bengaluru and its headquarters is in Delhi.

 

 

Source: The Hindu

 

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