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Indian Govt working on to spruce up human intelligence
Achinta Borah
New Delhi, Nov 13 (PTI) In the light of successive terror strikes in different parts of the country, the Indian government is sprucing up its human intelligence network by roping in people at grass-roots level to check such attacks.
High-tech surveillance equipment are also being
brought by the government to detect militants moving from one
place to another with arms and explosives.
"We have been focusing on for a long time the role of
human intelligence - the information that comes from the
police station and village officers. How we can make better
use of that because we need a combination of top down
intelligence and then the bottoms up approach," Cabinet
Secretary K.M.Chandrasekhar told PTI in an interview.
"We are in the process of strengthening our
intelligence machinery at the central level also. I think
overall in the recent past, some success has been achieved,"
Chandrasekhar said.
His comments came against the backdrop of recent media
reports criticising the Union Home Ministry for its alleged
failure in gathering intelligence information about the
nefarious plans of terror groups.
The Cabinet Secretary said plenty of equipment are
available in different parts of the world to take photographs
of militants moving around, to detect arms, explosives, etc.
"We are looking into that part. We have strengthened
considerably our surveillance system," he said.
Chandrasekhar said India's National Security Advisor M
K Narayanan was also working on these issues with close
coordination of state governments.
Last week, the Centre decided to set up an
intelligence coordination group for northeastern states for
better sharing of information and implementation of the inputs
at ground level effectively.
The decision was taken at a meeting of Chief
Secretaries and Directors General of Police of northeastern
states.
The meeting, which was chaired by Narayanan and
attended by Chandrasekhar among others, was held following
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's recent visit to north
eastern state of Assam where he highlighted the need for
generating actionable intelligence.
PTI ACB
New Delhi, Nov 13 (PTI) In the light of successive terror strikes in different parts of the country, the Indian government is sprucing up its human intelligence network by roping in people at grass-roots level to check such attacks.
High-tech surveillance equipment are also being
brought by the government to detect militants moving from one
place to another with arms and explosives.
"We have been focusing on for a long time the role of
human intelligence - the information that comes from the
police station and village officers. How we can make better
use of that because we need a combination of top down
intelligence and then the bottoms up approach," Cabinet
Secretary K.M.Chandrasekhar told PTI in an interview.
"We are in the process of strengthening our
intelligence machinery at the central level also. I think
overall in the recent past, some success has been achieved,"
Chandrasekhar said.
His comments came against the backdrop of recent media
reports criticising the Union Home Ministry for its alleged
failure in gathering intelligence information about the
nefarious plans of terror groups.
The Cabinet Secretary said plenty of equipment are
available in different parts of the world to take photographs
of militants moving around, to detect arms, explosives, etc.
"We are looking into that part. We have strengthened
considerably our surveillance system," he said.
Chandrasekhar said India's National Security Advisor M
K Narayanan was also working on these issues with close
coordination of state governments.
Last week, the Centre decided to set up an
intelligence coordination group for northeastern states for
better sharing of information and implementation of the inputs
at ground level effectively.
The decision was taken at a meeting of Chief
Secretaries and Directors General of Police of northeastern
states.
The meeting, which was chaired by Narayanan and
attended by Chandrasekhar among others, was held following
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's recent visit to north
eastern state of Assam where he highlighted the need for
generating actionable intelligence.
PTI ACB
