National database soon to monitor terrorism activities: Amit Shah

TIL Desk/National/Bengaluru/ Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said the government will soon be developing a national database to monitor hawala transactions, terrorist funding, terrorist activities among others.

He said the government under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has had a zero tolerance policy against terrorism from the very first day. The Minister was speaking after inaugurating the National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) Bengaluru premises today.

“The union government will soon be developing a national database to monitor hawala transactions, terrorist funding, counterfeit currency, narcotics, bomb threats, illegal arms smuggling and other terrorist activities,” Shah said.

He said intelligence and legal agencies should now be able to make full use of them with the barriers to critical data being removed.