NATGRID Program

Recently, the Home Ministry held a meeting to discuss the revival of NATGRID, an intelligence program that has been regularly delayed. Consider the following statements about the NATGRID Program:

  1. NATGRID was conceptualised in 2009 in the wake of the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
  2. Natgrid is the integrated intelligence grid connecting databases of core security agencies of the Government of India to collect comprehensive patterns of intelligence that can be readily accessed by intelligence agencies.

Choose the correct answer from the codes given below:

A
Only 1
B
Only 2
C
Both 1 and 2
D
Neither 1 nor 2