NTRO Comes Under Intelligence Act

The National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO), the technical intelligence agency under National Security Advisor (NSA), will now have similar powers as the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW). The Union Home Ministry on May 15, 2017 issued a notification listing NTRO under the Intelligence Organisations (Restriction of Rights) Act, 1985.

Intelligence Organisations (Restriction of Rights) Act, 1985

• The act prevents employees of a notified agency from forming unions/associations, bars them from communicating with the press or publishing a book or other document without permission of the head of the intelligence organisation.
• It was in 1985 that the ....