Give more work to the RTO: Introduce vehicle tracking and identification systems at the time of car registrations across states, with a central database. Make them mandatory fittings; help out carmakers with tax breaks on the equipment. This is very doable.
Shopkeepers as sleuths: Low intensity bombs, the kind of which used in most recent bombings, were made from fertilizers and materials commonly available in the market. If we can make internet café owners more aware, vigilant and responsible, why not the hardware store guy and the fertilizer seller? This is admittedly a tough task, but some regulation on sales of potentially deadly chemicals, and education of the sellers, could go a long way. Is a person who looks nothing like a farmer or gardener buying ammonium nitrate?
National ID cards: More than 180 million Indians do not have even voter ID cards after Rs 1,500 crores have been spent on the project for 15 years. The question of a national identity card – once proposed by the BJP government – remained mired in politics.
Across the border in Pakistan , officials have done it seamlessly: The National Database & Registration Authority (NADRA) has issued 60 million ID cards, and is set to issue them to all 150 million eligible Pakistanis. Pakistan ahs also launched multi-biometric E-Passports with sophisticated security features.
National law on terror: Bring a national law to deal with terrorism. The 2002 Prevention of Terrorist Activities Act (POTA) was being misused
