A high-level committee, headed by the Union Home Secretary, has been set up to allay apprehension over data sharing by various government agencies with Natgrid, the proposed real-time intelligence sharing setup to track terror activities.
As per the official sources, the committee, constituted by the government, will discuss with various stakeholders of National Intelligence Grid, Natgrid, like IB, R-AW, CBI, CBDT and remove their apprehension on breach of security and misuse of information.
The committee will also hold discussions with the state governments for chalking out strategy on how to bring synergy in data sharing, coordination and dissemination of information.
Natgrid seeks to synergise more than 20 categories of database from agencies like, railways, banks, airlines, credit card companies, immigration and others, and make it available to the law enforcement officers.
