Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday inaugurated the National IED Data Management System (NIDMS) of the National Security Guard (NSG), expressing confidence that the new system will prove extremely important in investigating terrorist activities, understanding trends in explosions, and formulating effective strategies against them.
Addressing the programme via video conferencing, he said that the NIDMS would prove to be extremely important in the coming days for the investigation of all types of terrorist incidents occurring in the country and for the analysis of their various aspects.
Shah said the Ministry of Home Affairs has generated various types of data in the past years, but until now they were in silos, i.e., separate from each other. ‘’Now, we are making efforts to connect all these data sources with one another and to develop an advanced Artificial Intelligence-based software for their analysis.’’
He said today’s launch of NIDMS will accelerate this process and prove to be an important milestone in the direction of making the country safe from terrorism.
The home minister said with the NIDMS being launched today, a two-way comprehensive, integrated and online data platform will become available to NIA, Anti-Terrorism Squads (ATS) across the country, state police forces and all Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs). He said that data related to any explosion or IED incident occurring at any location can be included in this system.
He said that the database available with NSG contains data related to all bomb explosions from 1999 till now. He said that through NIDMS, this data will now be made available to police forces across the country and relevant agencies.
NIDMS will become a robust platform for accurately analysing the patterns of bomb explosions that have occurred in the country so far, the modus operandi (MO), and the explosives used.
Shah said that it will provide significant help in establishing inter-linkages between incidents—based on MO and circuit methods—as well as in understanding overall trends and insights.
He said that NIDMS is a secure national digital platform through which accurate and organized analysis of bomb explosion-related incidents across the country can be conducted. This platform will strengthen the process of collecting, standardizing, integrating, and securely sharing IED-related data.