India to get mother-of-all anti-terror agencies: The NCTR

January 12, 2012 14:55

The government today gave its approval to set up the National Counter-Terrorism Centre which will act as the nodal agency for all anti-terror activities in the country.

The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, after an hour-long meeting gave its nod to set up the NCTC which will streamline all terror-related intelligence, analyse and provide them for action to concerned agencies, official sources said.

A pet project of Home Minister P Chidambaram, the NCTC will be the nodal agency for all counter-terrorism activities and coordinate with intelligence agencies such as Intelligence Bureau (IB), Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) and state intelligence agencies.

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