NEW DELHI: The Home Ministry may be pitching for a National Counter Terrorism Centre in disguise. A new policy is being drawn up for sharing of intelligence and action in terrorism cases as well as strengthening the role of the Multi Agency Centre (MAC) of the Intelligence Bureau. ET has learnt that a draft policy, “Publicity and sharing of intelligence in terrorism cases” is under consideration of Home Minister Rajnath Singh It aims at streamlining the flow of intelligence information between various agencies and also puts down a mechanism in blackand-white on who will coordinate action on such information. This was essentially also the broad framework of the NCTC , mooted by for mer Home Minister P Chidambaram but was struck down by BJP chief ministers led then by Narendra Modi on the grounds that the law would damage the federal structure of the country.There is, however, a realisation at the Home Ministry now that a streamlined system of intelligence sharing and counter-terrorism action is required in some form, though it would not be in the name or exact shape of NCTC. “We already have MAC and state MACs which share intelligence. There is a scope to strengthen MAC… you know what I mean,” a top Union Home Ministry official said on Friday.The draft of the above-mentioned policy came close on the heels of the recent incident involving a suspicious Pakistani boat entering Indian waters and blowing up after it was chased by the Coast Guard. It was later revealed that the intelligence information on the boat was generated by National Technical Research Organisation and shared with Coast Guard but the same was not brought to the MAC platform which has representatives from all intelligence and security agencies.Later it was claimed that Navy and Gujarat Police were given the said intelligence but only the Coast Guard acted. The IB and Home Ministry, meanwhile, said they had no association with the said operation, a stand also maintained by the RAW and lead counter-terror force, National Security Guards (NSG). “The new policy would remove many of such chinks in the present system. The IB is being consulted,” an official said.