Welcome NATGRID : Thank You, Shri Amitbhai Shah

 

 

 

Context :

 

 

Centre plans national database to strengthen policing and criminal investigation ..

 ET  /  04  May 2022

 

 Extract :

NATGRID is the integrated intelligence master

 database structure for counter-terrorism purposes,

 connecting databases of various CORE  SECURITY 

 AGENCIES under the Govt of India , collecting

 COMPREHENSIVE  PATTERNS procured from 21

 DIFFERENT  ORGANIZATIONS , that can be readily

 ACCESSED by SECURITY AGENCIES , around the

 Clock

 

MY  TAKE  :

Ø  DATA is better than Third Degree ………………………[  25  April  2022  ]

 

Extract :

 

Ø  E - Governance ?  ...................................... [ 03 April 2014 ]

 

(  AN  8 YEAR WAIT / PERSEVERANCE, HAS FINALLY PAID OFF ! NEVER SAY DIE !  ) 

 

Extract :

 

Can e-Governance help eliminate corruption  ?

Most certainly

Look at the following , partial list of Central and State Agencies set up to fight

fraud , money-laundering , corruption , tax-evasion , economic crimes etc :

 

>  Public Accounts Committee           (  PAC  )

 

>  Central Vigilance Commission        (  CVC  )

 

>  Central Information Commission     (  CIC  )

 

>  Research and Analysis Wing           (  RAW  )

 

>  Serious Fraud Investigation Office   (  SFIO  )

 

>  Information Bureau                        (  IB   )

 

>  Economic Offence Wing                   (  EOW  )

 

>  Central Bureau of Investigation        (  CBI  )

 

>  Department of Revenue Intelligence (  DIR  )

 

>  Comptroller and Auditor General       (  CAG  )

 

>  Anti Corruption Bureaus ( States ).... (  ACB  )

 

>  Enforcement Directorate                    (  ED   )

 

>  Lok  Ayukts    (  States   )

 

>  Lok Pal           ( Central  )

 

 

Despite such an army of Agencies , how do corrupt manage to get away  ?

Or , in case caught , manage to delay delivery of punishment for years  ?

No doubt , there must be several reasons , including , inter - agency rivalry to get credit - something difficult to eliminate altogether

But , I believe , the most important reason is :

 

Lack of a COMMON  / COMPUTERIZED database of all offences / cases / persons being investigated

 

And , which is readily " Accessible " to all of these Agencies , all over the country ( 24 * 365 )

 

Already , every Agency compiles huge dossiers on " Suspects " in its own "

Departmental Database " , which is never shared with other Agencies , leading

to ,

 

>   Huge amount of duplication of efforts / information

 

>   Fractured / scattered profiles of " Suspects "

 

>   Enormous waste of time / resources

 

 

What will help  ?

  

>  Dismantling of individual departmental databases

 

>  Merging of all Agency-wise databases into a SINGLE / UNIQUE database

 

>  All Agencies to enter their findings / data / info into this COMMON database ,

    with nothing preserved on  local computers

 

>  All data-entry FORMS to be ONLINE . No paper forms at all

 

>  All local computers connected to ultra-secure Network ( Encrypted )

 

>  " Access Rights " to individuals , based on Biometric Identification

 

 

 With regards,

Hemen Parekh  /  hcp@RecruitGuru.com  /  05 May 2022

 

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Added on  10 June 2022 :

Govt working on new platform for police to track crimes, criminals 

( The Print  / 08 June 2022 )

Extract :

Security and intelligence agencies will soon be provided with a new platform which is technologically advanced, secure and helpful in dealing with new age criminals and anti-social elements, officials said Wednesday.

The new platform will have information about crimes and criminals and can be accessed by police stations and different investigating agencies across the country on real-time basis with the Intelligence Bureau playing the role of the nodal agency.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday took stock of the progress of work on the project at a high-level meeting of the empowered steering group of police technology, a home ministry official said.

National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, Director of Intelligence Bureau Arvinda Kumar and other top officials of security agencies attended the meeting.

In the first phase, 10 users agencies and 21 service providers are being connected with the NATGRID.

The 10 agencies which will be able to access the NATGRID data on real time basis are: Intelligence Bureau (IB), Research & Analysis Wing (R&AW), Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Enforcement Directorate (ED), Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC), Directorate General of Central Excise and Intelligence (DGCEI) and Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB).