National Counter-Terrorism Centre gets CCS approval

• 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.
• The NCTC will connect Multi Agency Centre (MAC), which would be subsumed into NCTC, and all agencies reporting to it in Delhi and state capitals.
• The NCTC will not have any foot-soldier to collect information, but will depend on other agencies.
• It will come up through an executive order which will be issued soon. The government will not bring a legislation for setting up of this anti-terror body, unlike the NIA that was created through an Act.
• The head of the body, an additional Director General level police officer, will report to the Union Home Secretary.