- India's First-of-its kind database of arrested narcotics offenders becomes operational and can be used by various central and state prosecution agencies tasked to enforce anti-drug laws.
- NIDAAN portal or the National Integrated Database on arrested narcotics offenders is developed by Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB).
- This portal is part of the narcotics coordination mechanism (NCORD) portal that was launched on July 30 in Chandigarh during the national conference on 'Drug trafficking and national security by Union home minister Amit Shah.
- The data in the NIDAAN portal is sourced from the ICJS(inter-operable criminal justice system) and the e-Prisons (a cloud-based application) repository. In the future, it will be integrated with the crime and criminal tracking network system or CCTNS. ICJS is an initiative of the Supreme court e-committee, created to provide a seamless transfer of data and information among various pillars of the criminal justice system such as courts, jails, police, and forensic science laboratories.
- NIDAAN will act as a one-stop solution for all narcotics offender-related data and this will help the investigative agencies to connect the dot while probing narcotics cases.
Question:
Q.1 Which is India's first portal that contains data related to narcotics offenders?
a. NIDAAN
b. NCORD
c. CCTNS
d. ICJS
a. NIDAAN
b. NCORD
c. CCTNS
d. ICJS
