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India will have a single anti-terror network soon: Chidambaram |
Union Home Minister P.Chidambaram said here on Friday that,
his ministry has initiated a project to bring all the over 16,000 police stations
in the country under a single network to counter terror challenges. Inaugurating
a conference on small entrepreneurship Chidambaram said, the project, which would
attract an estimated cost of Rs 2,000 crore, would be operational by 2012. "We
are working on Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS). That will
link each of the 16,000 police stations in India so that any of the police station
can contact any other police station," he said Chidambaram also said the Multi
Purpose National Identity Cards (MNIC) will be issued to 1.1 billion resident
Indians after the completion of enumeration work next year. "After successful
completion of the pilot project of biometric identity card system (MNIC), the
government will cover 3,331 coastal villages and the Andaman Nicobar Islands this
year under the scheme," he said. He said over 1.1 billion people would be enumerated
for the biometric identity card system. "This year we are covering 12 million
people in 3,331 coastal villages and the whole of Andaman Nicobar Islands. Following
that we will issue a unique identity number to every resident Indian," he said.
Chidambaram said the unique number would be applicable for income tax, excise
duty, and public distribution system cards, old age pension and schemes like NREGA
and others. He elaborated that the State Governments have appointed nodal officers
and all of them have signed a memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Centre
for its early completion. "Once the CCTNS is completed, it will mark a quantum
jump in country's ability to counter various challenges to internal security,
particularly terror threats," Chidambaram added. He also called on the technocrats
to help the government to build a National Counter-terrorism Centre on the lines
of the US. "If the US can have a National Counter-terrorism Centre, why can't
we have one in India. So, I wish that your entrepreneurial activities will help
us build a sound technology-based system that will enhance the security and efficiency
in India." Chidambaram said. |
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