India has evidence against Pakistan: Chidamabram

NEW DELHI: Union home minister P Chidambaram has announced a massive overhaul of the country's security and intelligence agencies in the wake of last month's Mumbai attacks.

Palaniappan Chidambaram made the announcement while addressing Lok Sabha members during the Parliament session.

The home minister said the government had evidence the Mumbai terror attacks had originated from Pakistani soil.

Government will introduce a set of bills to strengthen security measures, said Chidambaram, and urged the Lok Sabha to pass the bills to strengthen preventive, investigative and prosecution measures, including the one to set up a national investigative agency in this session itself, PTI reported.

The home minister has said the government will beef up coastal security forces, create a national investigative agency, better train local police and strengthen anti-terror laws, agency AP reported.

Centre will set up 20 counter-insurgency and anti-terror schools for training commandos from police forces, he said.

The measures are the government's first detailed response to the public outcry over security and intelligence failures in the attacks, which left over 171 dead in the country���s financial capital Mumbai.

Chidambaram has previously admitted to government ``lapses'' in the assault.

Meanwhile in the Rajya Sabha, minister of state for home Sriprakash Jaiswal said the government will set up Coastal Command for overall security of 7,500-km coast-line, according to PTI.

Intelligence gathering and sharing to be made more effective and result-oriented, he added.