Union Home Minister chairs regional conference on Drugs smuggling and National Security in Delhi

Published on: 19 Jul 2023 at 10:49 AM

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The Fact News Service

Chandigarh, July 19

Union Home Minister, Amit Shah today chaired the regional conference on ‘Drugs Smuggling and National Security’ in Delhi. Haryana Chief Minister along with Chief Ministers and Director General of Police (DGPs) of various states also attended the meeting through video conferencing.

While reviewing the efforts being made by the states to tackle the drug menace, Sh. Amit Shah directed the Chief Ministers and DGPs to tighten the noose around those involved in the illegal smuggling of drugs so as to realize Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s dream of drugs-free India.

Haryana Chief Minister, Manohar Lal who participated in the meeting through video conference from Sonipat district apprised about the multi-pronged strategy adopted by Haryana to break the network of drugs. He also reiterated his government’s commitment to make Haryana drug-free.

Manohar Lal further informed about ending the drug trade in Haryana’s Nuh district. He shared that 500 policemen were deployed in Nuh district to break the drug network. Besides this, a special campaign against drugs is being run in the border villages, he added.

He informed that mission teams have been formed from the village and ward level to the state level for de-addiction and rehabilitation, in which village Sarpanch and other persons have been included so that Haryana can be made a drug-free state.

The Chief Minister said that to help drug addicts in the state, a toll-free anti-drug helpline number 9050891508 has also been started to collect information from the public about drug peddling activities in their area. So far 5542 calls have been received on this number, which is proving useful for helping addicts and also playing a key tool in breaking the drug supply chain.