senior IPS officer A K Patnaik, who is son-in-law of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on July 13, 2016 has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID). He will continue to hold this post till his superannuation in 2018.
Patnaik’s appointment was cleared by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The post had been lying vacant since the contract of Raghu Raman, the first CEO of Natgrid, was not renewed by the NDA government. The post was under the additional charge of former Special Secretary Ashok Prasad till January 2016.
Patnaik is a 1983-batch IPS officer of Gujarat cadre, currently posted as Additional Director in the Intelligence Bureau (IB).
He was awarded special duty medal in 1994, police medal in 1999 and President’s police medal in 2007.
About National Intelligence grid (NATGRID)-
NATGRID is an intelligence sharing network that collates data from the standalone databases of the various agencies and ministries of the Indian government. It is a counter terrorism measure that collects and collates a host of information from government databases including tax and bank account details, credit card transactions, visa and immigration records and itineraries of rail and air travel. This combined data will be made available to 11 central agencies, which are: Research and Analysis Wing, theIntelligence Bureau, Central Bureau of Investigation, Financial intelligence unit,Central Board of Direct Taxes, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Enforcement Directorate,Narcotics Control Bureau, Central Board of Excise and Customs and the Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence.
Source: NATGRID is an intelligence sharing network that collates data from the standalone databases of the various agencies and ministries of the Indian government. It is a counter terrorism measure that collects and collates a host of information from government databases including tax and bank account details, credit card transactions, visa and immigration records and itineraries of rail and air travel. This combined data will be made available to 11 central agencies, which are: Research and Analysis Wing, theIntelligence Bureau, Central Bureau of Investigation, Financial intelligence unit,Central Board of Direct Taxes, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Enforcement Directorate,Narcotics Control Bureau, Central Board of Excise and Customs and the Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence.
16 Jul, 2016
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