New Delhi, Feb. 9 :     The Subrahmanyam committee has held the army and the country's external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing, responsible for the Kargil intrusion. The 2,000-page report, submitted to Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee on January 7, has underlined the all-round 'systemic failure' and 'composite' lapse on the part of the army and security agencies. Divided into 18 volumes, the report has pointed out that hundreds of Pakistani army regulars were able to sneak into Kargil and occupy strategic heights because of the army's 'failure' to remain vigilant, the discontinuation of regular winter patrolling along the Line of Control (LoC) and the inability of the field intelligence units of the directorate-general of military intelligence to detect Pakistani activities across the LoC. The intrusion could have been prevented had RAW collected intelligence in Pakistan on an impending incursion, the report has said. It has expressed surprise on how even sorties by RAW's Aviation Research Centre aircraft failed to notice anything unusual on the ground. Though no senior official has been held responsible for late detection of the intrusion and the failure to gather advance information on the Pakistani army's designs in Kargil, the report has said there is no competent authority or official in the government capable of assessing intelligence. The report has asserted that the present set-up does not have the capacity to grasp the implications of intelligence input to either plan action for neutralising security threats or to get security agencies to develop the information to actionable level. The committee has referred to bits and pieces of intelligence inputs which Intelligence Bureau director Shyamal Dutta had mentioned in a 'UO' (unofficial) Note of September 1998, detailing some 'raw' inputs about the possibility of a Pakistani intrusion in the Kargil sector. It is implies that the government had some sketchy intelligence reports which were not developed further. The committee, which included defence analyst K. Subrahmanyam, journalist B.G. Verghese, Lieutenant General (retd) K.K. Hazari and Joint Intelligence Committee chairman Satish Chandra, did not find convincing the submissions made by several army officers. General-Officer-Commanding, 3rd Infantry Division, Major General V.S. Budhwar, and Kargil-based 121 (Independent) Infantry Brigade commander, Brig. Surinder Singh, were among the officers who appeared before the panel. The committee was of the view that the army units which were supposed to carry out winter patrolling in the high-altitude areas did not perform their duty regularly, allowing the Pakistani army to take advantage of lax security along the LoC. The report points out that air reconnaissance was discontinued by the Army Aviation Centre although it was tasked to perform this specific duty since 1997. Other military and non-military flights, not officially tasked to conduct air reconnaissance, had also stopped taking pictures or picking electronic intelligence.