New Delhi, June 26 (UNI) Union Home Minister Amit Shah stated on Monday that the coverage of zero tolerance towards narcotics adopted by the central authorities is displaying profitable outcomes.

“One of the main pillars of this policy is the whole of government approach of the Modi government, in which the coordination of different departments makes the policy more effective,” he stated in a video message on the “International Day towards Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.

The Union Home Minister additionally congratulated all of the organisations and folks preventing towards medicine.

“It is a matter of great pleasure that this time also the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) is organising ‘Nasha Mukt Pakhwada’ at all India level,” he stated.

The Union Home Minister stated that it’s the authorities’s resolve to not permit narcotics commerce in India.

“Nor we will allow drugs to be routed to the world through India. In this campaign against drugs, all the major agencies of the country, especially the “Narcotics Control Bureau” are continuously fighting their war” he stated.

Shah stated the impact of the excellent and coordinated combat towards medicine is that the place medicine value Rs.768 crore solely had been seized in 2006-13, it has elevated nearly 30 instances to Rs 22,000 Crore in 2014-22.

“181 per cent more number of cases have been registered against drug peddlers in comparison to the earlier period,” he stated.

This exhibits the federal government’s dedication in direction of a drug-free India.

“We also launched a destruction campaign to prevent the re-use of seized drugs in June 2022, under this campaign around 6 lakh kg of seized narcotics have been destroyed across the country so far” he stated.UNI JA SSP