In an effort to expedite measures to gear up security and intelligence systems, Home Minister P Chidambaram today held a series of meetings with top government officials, including National Security Adviser M K Narayanan and Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrashekhar.
Chidambaram, who visited Mumbai yesterday, discussed with the officials various aspects related to security and ways to fine-tune it so that recurrence of terror attacks is prevented.
Steps to make the intelligence system effective were also discussed during the meetings which were attended by Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta, Law Secretary T K Vishwanathan, Special Secretary (Internal Security) Raman Srivastava and IB chief P C Haldar, besides Narayanan and Chandrashekhar.
The meetings are understood to have discussed issues related to the proposed Federal Investigation Agency and tightening laws to deal with terrorism effectively.
With Parliament slated to resume its session on December 10, Bills in this regard could be introduced.
A Bill to amend the CISF Act to bring private installations under the purview of the central force was also under consideration of the government.
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Less than a week after taking over as the Home Minister, Chidambaram yesterday admitted to failure of intelligence and security systems leading to the Mumbai attacks and promised to take urgent steps to correct the situation.
Almost all the senior officials of the home ministry were in office today, despite Saturday being a holiday, on the directions of the new home minister, who has made clear the urgency with he wants to correct the security machinery.
The NSA also held a separate meeting with the cabinet secretary, the home secretary and heads of IB and RAW. Top brass of the three services were also present in the meeting, sources said.