Under the NATGRID project, government wants to link social media accounts to the database of records related to immigration entry and exit, banking and telephone details among others.
About:
What is it?
NATGRID is an online database for collating scattered pieces of information from more than 20 organisations in the field of telecom, tax records, bank, immigration, etc. to enable the generation of intelligence inputs.
At least 10 central agencies like IB, R&AW and others will have access to the data on a secured platform for counter-terror investigations.
Background: The project was started in 2009 in the aftermath of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
Management: NATGRID is now headed by IAS officer Ashish Gupta.
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