He asked the chief ministers to draft a strategy for "seamless flow of intelligence in real time" from a police station to National Capital via District Headquarters and state capital and vice versa.

"Beginning January 1, 2009 the Multi Agency Centre has begun to function on a 247 basis and is now legally obliged to share intelligence with all other agencies, including agencies of the Governments of the states and Union Territories," he said.

"Under the Modernisation of Police Forces Scheme, there is a component to enhance the capacity of Special Branch of state police and I would request you to implement the agreed plans expeditiously," Chidambaram told the chief ministers.

He said objectives to raise the level of preparedness to meet increasingly sophisticated terrorist attacks and enhancing the speed and decisiveness of response mechanism should be achieved in a relatively short period of time.

Police personnel should be given special training and advanced equipment to deal with such threats, he said.

"The Central Government proposes to set up hubs of the National Security Guard in different parts of the country. To begin with, hubs will be set-up in four cities."

"Some other cities will be covered by a trained anti-terrorist force provided by defence forces—for example Bengaluru will be covered by the Army. In the course of time, NSG hubs will be set up in more centres," he said and asked the states to raise and deploy their own anti-terrorist forces and offered them all the help from the Centre.

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