MHA holds high-level meeting for preparing national database to monitor terror funding
India Today
The MHA held a meeting after Union Home Minister Amit Shah recently said the government will soon be developing a national database to terrorist funding, etc.
The Ministry of Home Affairs held a high-level meeting on Friday after NIA was recently tasked with creating a national database for internal security.
The meeting, which was attended by the NIA chief, CBI chief, NATGRID officers, IB officers, ED officers, besides other officials of MHA, was chaired by the Union Home Secretary.
Recently, during the NIA's foundation day program, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that there should be a radical change in the investigation method. "Investigation should no longer depend on the third degree but technology, data and information. There should be a database to bring these changes about. Hence, NIA has been given the task of creating a national database for cases related to narcotics, hawala transactions, arms smuggling, counterfeit currency, bomb blasts, terror funding and terrorism," the Union Home Minister had said.
According to information received from NIA sources, NATGRID, IB and NIA are jointly preparing the database.
The purpose of the central government behind preparing the national database is that all the information related to drug trafficking and terror incidents, besides other cases, should be present in one place with one click. That is why it is being created under the leadership of NIA.
The database will include information that would help during the investigation. Such a database can be used to get instant information with a single click, which will speed up the investigation and help in preventing such incidents in the country.
