The central government is serious about curbing drug trafficking, and it is an objective to make the country addiction-free in the next two years, and a Narcotics Coordination Committee is being formed for the same, which will work from the level of the districts to the states and to the Centre. Union Home Minister Amit Shah said in the parliament that the government is developing a framework against drugs. Shah, replying to the discussion on the growing problem of drugs in the Lok Sabha, said that drug networks have been identified in 472 districts of the country.
He added that no people related to the same will be spared. Amit Shah also stated, requesting to keep politics away from the movement against addiction, that if in a state, drugs are seized in large amounts, it means that the maximum action is being taken in that state.
The Centre has also given the authority to the BSF, SSB, Assam Rifles, Coast Guard, and RPF to register cases under the NDPS Act. Labelling this to be the correct decision, Shah called its opposition the support of drug trafficking. The BSF has been given the authority to take action and register FIRs within 50 KMs of the borders, and states like West Bengal and Punjab have opposed the same.
