New Delhi: Union Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday suggested splitting the Home Ministry and creating a separate ministry to handle matters not related to internal security.
The Home Minister said a division of the current functions of the Ministry of Home Affairs was necessary. "Subjects not directly related to internal security should be dealt with by a separate ministry or should be brought under a separate department in the MHA and dealt with by a minister, more or less independently, without referring every issue to the Home Minister.
"The Home Minister should devote the whole of his/her time and energy to matters relating to security," he said delivering the ‘Intelligence Bureau Centenary Endowment Lecture’ in New Delhi.
The Home Ministry performs functions that have no direct relation to internal security. It has a division dealing with freedom fighters but it does not have even a desk for dealing exclusively with forensic science.
"There are other divisions or desks that deal with centre-state relations....disaster management, census etc. These are undoubtedly important functions and deserve close attention. However, internal security is an equally, if not more, important function that deserves the highest attention," he said.
Calling for a radical restructuring of India's security architecture, Chidambaram on Wednesday proposed the setting up of a National Counter Terrorism Centre.
"As the name suggests the goal is to counter terrorism. Such an organisation does not exist today; it has to be created from scratch. I am told that the US was able to do it within 36 months of 9/11," Chidambaram said.
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