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EARLY TIMES REPORT
NEW DELHI, Mar 30: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has said that National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) would get a building and some staff by the end of this year. He expressed the hope that this would help various intelligence agencies and would enable them to talk to each other.
Home Minister was talking here to a prominent business daily today over a luncheon. Excerpts from his talks were released later where Chidambaram has been quoted as saying that NCTC would have a building by December 31 where some human beings would be able to sit with core data and this would set on the process of intelligence agencies talking to each other.
The NCTC was first mentioned by Chidambaram in one of his lectures minaly to bridge the gap in intelligence sharing between various Government agencies both at the Central and State levels.
He denied that the NCTC has been forgotten while saying that work on this was on. Conceptualised on the lines of a counter terrorism centre formed in America after 9/11, the Home Minister had visited US to study its structure and functioning.
He said that the need for such a centre was first mentioned in the report of the committee that was formed in the wake of Kargil intrusion. The committee was formed by the then Union Home Minister LK Advani. Chidambaram declined to go into lack of progress on this during the tenure of his immediate predecessor and party colleague Shivraj Patil.
In the wake of Mumbai attack in November 2008, a National Investigating Authority or NIA was set up and the need for forming NCTC on the lines of its counterpart in the US was felt all the more. And ever since Chidambaram has been actively pursuing an overall mechanism to prevent, tackle and counter the menace of terrorist violence.
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