The Cabinet Committee on Security approved the setting up of a National Counter Terrorism Centre, NCTC, to counter terrorism effectively. The NCTC will be a single window organisation that will gather and disseminate intelligence to central and state security organisations. Briefing reporters after the meeting on Thursday,

Home Minister P Chidambaram said the government will soon issue a notification for the appointment of Directors and other members of core team of the NCTC.

Mr Chidambaram said, the NCTC, being created in the wake of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, will work under the Union Home Ministry. A senior IPS officer of the rank of Additional Director General of Police and above will head the elite counter-terror body.

He said, the NCTC will also coordinate with relevant probe and intelligence agencies to ensure that the perpetrators of terror are brought to justice besides maintaining a comprehensive data base of terrorists, their associates and supporters.