Kalam for national campaign to eradicate terrorism

New Delhi, Dec 22: Expressing concern over the low intensity proxy war and terrorism, President A P J Abdul Kalam today called for launching a National Campaign to Eradicate Terrorism with mission oriented integrated management structure and peoples participation.

Delivering the 19th IB Centenary Endowment Lecture on 'Dynamics of Intelligence Missions', the President exhorted the Intelligence Bureau and police officials that 'When evil minds combine, Good minds have to work together and combat.' Dr Kalam called for syergising multiple agencies involved in forecasting and dealing with terrorist activities to evolve NCET which would facilitate working together of the intelligence and security machinery both at the State and the Central level to achieve the desired objectives. The President also asked the judiciary to create a fast track judicial process for settling terrorism related cases.

''The NCET will be an alert and dynamic movement which would prevent hotels and homes being used as a shelter by terrorists and extremists. We have to create a secure atmosphere where citizens who wish to co-operate in the peace mission must themselves feel secure.

Then citizens can participate in the important function of promoting their own safety and the security of their neighbourhood.'' Dr Kalam also asked the state to consider introduction of National ID Cards and implement the national e-governance GRID for all Government to Government, Government to Citizens, Business to Business and Business to Citizen transactions within two years time.

The National ID card would be a boon for the intelligence agencies because this will help to control the dynamics and create special monitoring methodology for unusual and abnormal banking transactions. He said with introduction of computerised banking and computerized communication systems, the world of data mining has advanced to detect such anomalies in real time.

The President stressed the need for the intelligence agencies to use the awesome power of the technology, at present being used by terrorists for network for perceived act of violence, to counter militants and decimate them. They can use the technology to monitor and counter the communication.

They can also use the same technology to communicate with the public and other stakeholders to educate them to work in unison with the State to identify potential threats even before they start brewing. They can communicate with the terrorist to reform them and bring them back to normal life which they left due to temporary aberration.

UNI