Natgrid to share intelligence data, gets new life

New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government will soon have real time access to details of all citizens, such as passport, driving licence, telephone records, credit card details, bank records and so on, at the click of a mouse to track terror activities.

As terror blasts hit the new government, the National Intelligence Grid (Natgrid) has been put on the fast track by the Union home ministry, which has tweaked the original proposal mooted during the UPA regime post-26/11 terror attacks but never saw the light of day.

In a fresh move, the Modi government has decided to take state governments on board by including them as “user agencies” of the Natgrid database.