Cabinet gives nod to National Counter Terrorism Centre proposal

12 Jan 2012 Evaluate

In the wake of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, the central government's Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) has managed to gather approval from all ministries and clear the proposal to set up National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) after more than three years of attack. NCTC will be operational under the guidance of union home ministry.

It is reported that though it would take time to set up the entire paraphernalia of the NCTC, government will notify it soon and appoint its director. Since the MAC will be subsumed into it, the sleuths working in this wing of the IB will form the core of the NCTC, to begin with. Later, a number of officers-drawn from intelligence and security agencies and state police will join the NCTC on deputation.

NCTC is expected to work in co-ordination with the existing intelligence and security agencies and gather terror related inputs from them, post which, it will work with states and other agencies to even neutralize terror modules. Over and above this, NCTC will also monitor whether such inputs are used effectively for its logical end.

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