MHA to extend subsidiary MAC to district level soon
MHA to extend subsidiary MAC to district level soon
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), along with Intelligence Bureau (IB), is considering to extend the connectivity of this Subsidiary Multi- Agency Centre (SMAC) to the district level for which the IB has already identified some districts.
The Union Home Ministry had shared a detailed report on the this plan to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on MHA, headed by the Congress MP Anand Sharma.
The Committee has already submitted its report to the Rajya Sabha.
According to officials in the security set up here, taking the issues like the leased lines and encryptors for this purpose, the domestic intelligence agency has been in the process of picking up those districts in a phased manner.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
In a fillip for the nation s security and counter-terror capabilities, the Intelligence Bureau (IB) is all set to enhance its network of information gathering from present 374 locations to 825 locations, reports
India Today.
The indian internal intelligence agency is looking to expand its network to 825 locations from the current 374 that work under the Multi Agency Centre (MAC) which was instituted in 2001 by the then prime minister (PM) Atal Bihari Vajpayee s government following the 1999 Kargil War.
On an average, the MAC gathers, collates, stores, shares and disseminates about 150 inputs to concerned agencies. The network works on two software platforms - an intelligence-sharing tool called Threat Management System (TMS) and a database tool called National Memory Bank (NMB).