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Mumbai has something to say
Nisha Jamvwal alongwith some support from Nandan Nilekani, Kishore Bayani, Peter Mukherjea, Bachi Karkaria,  Anil Dharker, Shilpa Shetty, Gayatri Jayaraman, Ronnie Screwvala and Karan Johar will be presenting a 10 point plan as they carry out a peaceful demonstration on Tuesday, 2nd Dec, 4pm sharp. We give you a look at the memorandum. If you agree with even one of the points, please be there...
TERRORISM WILL NOT GO AWAY BY WISHING IT,
WE HAVE TO MAKE IT GO AWAY BY KILLING IT.
1. A single Federal (all-India) anti-terror agency - with a significant presence in each city, with capabilities (software and hardware) for rapid response and the best equipment money can buy.
Why was Karkare's BP jacket inferior to the NSG BP jacket, in this age and time, when we Indians pay Rs 5 trillion in taxes?
2. Networking of the communication and financial data, with tracking of all financial transactions
Post 9/11 the US and UK networked their communication and financial data so that security agencies could check on their computer screens on any terror suspect - India is nowhere near that, nor are we even thinking of it.
3. Anticipation of attacks and being prepared for them, rather than post-facto preparation
4. When the terrorists started hijacking planes and entering through the Indo-Pak border, post facto we enhanced checking at airports and fenced the border. So the terrorist shifted to hotels and the sea route; post facto we shall make all our hotels and sea ports and coastlines secure. Then the terrorist will shift to, perhaps, malls and micro-light aircraft, post facto we shall make malls and the air space more secure. and so on..........
5. For countering terrorism (as compared to normal policing) we need much higher number/ levels and grades of police/ intelligence infrastructure.
6. Intelligence operatives to population ratio in India is less than 5 per lakh in India compared to above 40 in many countries - this, despite India being beset with multiple types of terror - Islamic, Kashmiri, Hindu, Sikh, north-east and Naxals - much more than only Islamic terror threat for the west, Russia, China etc.
7. We need a tough anti-terror law and the judiciary to act quickly
We kept Maulana Masood Azhar in our jails as an under-trial for 6 yrs and then released him to the Kandahar hijackers - he is the current big boss of the LeT in Pakistan. Why did the judiciary take so much time? At that time we had the strictest of laws - TADA.
8. In 2000, post-Kargil a Group of Ministers made a report to realign and resolve India's security infrastructure, red tape has killed it. To get over the red tape, the PM in 2005 announced the Police Mission to reform the police system, red tape killed that too.
9. We need to fill senior level vacancies in IB & RAW
IB and R&AW have suffered 40% vacancies in top level supervisors (IPS officers) for more than a decade now and 50% vacancies in levels of SI and Inspector!
10. Mumbai needs to have a directly elected Mayor, who will act as the head of government for the city (and head all the local level organizations like BMC)
While statehood (like Delhi) would be ideal, let's start with a directly elected Mayor, like London, New York, Shanghai. | 
