National Security

National Counter Terror Centre by next year: PC

Express news servicePosted: Wed Dec 01 2010, 03:41 hrsNew Delhi:
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Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday said India’s capacity to deal with security challenges is better today than it was two years ago.

Addressing mediapersons at the completion of two years in the crucial post, Chidambaram said the National Counter Terrorism Centre could become operational by the end of 2011 if a decision on its inception is be taken before year-end. NCTC is being set up for strengthening the intelligence-sharing and analysing mechanism.

“I said that with the hope that a decision would be taken by the end of this year. Then I am hopeful that the NCTC would be set up within 12 months in comparison to 24 months that the US took (for a similar unit). I am confident that a decision on NCTC would be taken by the year-end,” he said.

Chidambaram also said the Detailed Project Report of the proposed National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) was ready and could be placed before the Cabinet Committee on Security for approval.

“The DPR is ready. It has been presented to me. Now the DPR will go to the CCS. The core team has been set up. The core team is working on the DPR,” he said.

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