The National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID), a secure platform for the police and investigating agencies to access government and private databases in real-time, has been linked to the National Population Register (NPR), which has the family-wise details of 119 crore residents in India, government officials said.
The Union Home Ministry has been pushing for the enhanced use of NATGRID by State police and other Central law and security agencies for intelligence gathering and for speedy investigation in criminal cases through indigenous and secure platforms.
The Hindu had reported on December 7 that NATGRID is, on an average, getting around 45,000 requests per month. The platform, accessible only to security agencies, became operational last year after first being conceptualised in 2009 in the aftermath of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
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The data for NPR, which stores information family wise, was first collected in 2010 with the first phase of the 2011 Census and was last updated in 2015 through door-door enumeration. It was to be updated further during the 2021 Census which was indefinitely delayed due to COVID-19 pandemic.
