Why india need nctc

But the federalism issue will not go away till we make it real. On the face of it, it appears so. In December , political parties used the federalism argument to stymie the Lokayukta clause in the Lokpal Bill. And yet, the states seem to be saying it does not matter.

The BJP, once the tiger on terrorism, would not mind using it to scuttle an anti-terror measure. It has a reality of its own. A nation of 1. The more we try to centralise power, the more the damage we will do to India. In fact, one reason why India is becoming ungovernable is this explicit lack of federalism — where economic power is too concentrated at the centre, while political power has shifted to the states. It has no accountability to Parliament in respect of its work.

We do not have a system of parliamentary intelligence oversight committees. We depend on the executive without any checks and balances to ensure that the IB functions according to the law of the land. The standing council of the NCTC will consist of anti-terror agencies in states. The body will have 3 divisions dealing with collection and dissemination of intelligence, analysis and operations.

How did the proposal to set up the NCTC originate? Home Minister P. What will NCTC do? It will have the power to conduct searches and arrests in any part of India. It will collect, collate and disseminate data on terrorism. It will also maintain a database on terrorist and their associates including their families. In short, NCTC will serve as a single and effective point of control and coordination of all counter terrorism measures.

Strikingly, it appeared then that Chidambaram was unveiling a major policy in a public speech, without so much as securing Cabinet clearance for the proposal. With that mandate, he saw the NCTC performing functions relating to intelligence, investigation and operations.

To that end, he felt that the NCTC would result in the transfer of oversight responsibilities over existing intelligence agencies to the proposed agency. Since then, the mandate of the NCTC has been eroded substantially. For far too long have ruling parties at the Centre misused and abused intelligence sleuths for partisan political ends. Narendra Modi noted a while ago that the Congress was using all the investigating agencies and intelligence agencies in a vain attempt to ensnare him politically.

In fact, some State-level leaders have a rather better record when it comes to counter terrorism. Jayalalithaa, for instance, has an exemplary record of tackling terrorist groups who operated in Tamil Nadu: in the wake of the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, she leveraged the widespread disenchantment with Sri Lankan Tamil extremism to uproot the militant groups that had a free run in earlier times.

It is in this context that the opposition from the four State chief ministers begins to make sense. Rajinikanth, who co-starred with Srikanth in the film Bhairavi, tweeted that he is 'deeply saddened' by the actor's demise.