Speed Post News Network
New Delhi : Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will inaugurate the new Headquarters Office Complex of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) here on October 10, 2017. Ministers of State for Home Affairs Hansraj Gangaram Ahir and Kiren Rijiju will also be present at the inauguration ceremony. The foundation stone of the NIA Headquarters was laid by Rajnath Singh on September 10, 2015, and the work has been completed within the stipulated period of 24 months.
The NIA, which came into existence on December 31, 2008, initially began its operations from Hotel Centaur, New Delhi, and thereafter shifted its Headquarters to the NDCC-II Building, Jai Singh Road, New Delhi, in June, 2013. In addition to the Headquarters, the agency has expanded its geographical outreach through a network of branch offices located at Lucknow, Hyderabad, Kochi, Guwahati, Mumbai, Kolkata, Raipur & Jammu. Apart from these, the NIA is having its camp offices at Chandigarh, Srinagar, Chennai, Bangalore, Vishakhapatnam, Ahmedabad, Bharuch, Jagdalpur, Patna, Siliguri, Malda, Ranchi, Vijaywada and Imphal, according to a PIB release.
The Ministry of Urban Development had allotted 1.0356 acres (4,191 sqm) of land opposite CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, at a cost of Rs.22.78 lacs on December 23, 2013, for construction of the Office Complex of the NIA Hqrs. The NIA started functioning on January 19, 2009. The first case was assigned to NIA in June, 2009, and by the end of July, 2017, 166 cases had been assigned to the NIA for investigation.