National Intelligence Grid

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Recently, officials said that the National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) is slowly gathering pace and receiving 45k requests a month.

About National Intelligence Grid

• It is a platform for the police and investigating agencies to securely access government and private databases in real time.
• It is conceptualised as a seamless and secure database for information on terrorists, economic crimes and similar incidents to help bolster India’s capabilities.
• Background
  • The project was started in 2009 in the aftermath of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
  • NATGRID was set up as an attached Office of the Ministry of Home Affairs with effect from December 1, 2010.
  • It started its operations on December 31, 2020.
• NATGRID database is available to 
  • Intelligence Bureau (IB), the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI).
  • Superintendent of Police (SP) rank officers.

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Operation of National Intelligence Grid

• It has been mandated to maintain a repository of intelligence databases.
• It works as an integrated intelligence grid that connects databases of core security agencies of the government of India.
• It will have data related to all immigration entry and exit, banking and financial transactions, credit card purchases, telecom, individual taxpayers, air flyers, train travellers besides others to generate intelligence inputs.
• It will utilise Big Data and Analytics to study huge amounts of data generated to analyse events in order to get a better picture as well as to trail suspects.

Source: TH