Union Home Minister Amit Shah with Chief Ministers, Chief Secretaries and Director Generals of Police of all North Eastern states in Guwahati, Assam on October 8. (Photo Courtesy: PIB Kohima)
Guwahati, October 8 (MExN): Union Home Minister Amit Shah chaired a meeting with Chief Ministers, Chief Secretaries and Director Generals of Police of all North Eastern states on ‘drug trafficking and national security’ in Guwahati, Assam on October 8.
The Home Minister said that every state should have one Forensic Science Laboratory and the Government of India is ready to give financial assistance of 50% in this endeavour, stated an update from the Press Information Bureau, Kohima.
Shah emphasised that CMs of all NE states should chair NCORD meetings and efforts should be made to percolate these to the district level. He favoured use of drone, artificial intelligence and satellite mapping for identification and control of areas cultivating opium cases of drugs should be investigated thoroughly from its source to destination to crackdown on its entire network.
Approximately 40,000 kg narcotics were destroyed in the NE region under a special campaign against narcotics. Under Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, a target to destroy 75,000 kg narcotics was set but under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, over 1.5 lakh kg narcotics has been destroyed so far, which is more than double of the target set, it stated.
A total of 1257 cases were registered between 2006-2013 which increased by 152 percent to 3172 between 2014-2022, the total number of arrests during the same period increased by 260 percent to 4888 from 1362.
During 2006-2013, 1.52 lakh kg of drugs were seized which doubled to 3.30 lakh kg between 2014-2022, drugs worth Rs 768 crore were seized during 2006-2013, which increased by 25 times to Rs 20,000 crore between 2014-2022.
