ump money into forensics: India 's forensics capability sucks. We do not believe in using science to tackle crime and terrorism, the most effective way worldwide. Apart from some centres of excellence, little attention has been paid to sprucing up our forensics laboratories in the states. In Jharkhand, it was actually running until recently in a cowshed.
Investment in forensics would not just help get crucial leads in terror cases, but help solve other ordinary crimes.
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 – remain
