Panel suggests merging Aviation Research Centre with RAW

New Delhi: Aviation Research Centre (ARC), the secretive intelligence agency that operates a fleet of aircraft for surveillance and secret missions, could be merged with the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) in a few years time, if the recommendation of the Naresh Chandra committee on national security is to be accepted.
According to sources, the committee has recommended that ARC be merged with RAW, the external intelligence agency, to avoid unnecessary turf battles among various intelligence agencies.
ARC is an autonomous department, though the RAW chief has overall supervisory role as the director general of security. It has at least eight aircraft with high resolution cameras and other snooping devices and some helicopters too. Established in the wake of India's disastrous war with China in 1962 that was fought with woeful inadequacies including on the intelligence front, ARC has steadily expanded its role over the past several decades.
11/07/12 Josy Joseph/Times of India

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Categories: Indian Aviation- In General Jul 2012