By PTI
NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday mentioned the battle in opposition to medication was delicately poised and urged states to combat the menace along with the central authorities, maintaining apart politics.
Responding to a short-duration dialogue within the Lok Sabha on the drug-abuse drawback within the nation and steps taken by the federal government to manage it, Shah mentioned the Modi authorities has zero tolerance coverage in the direction of medication and vowed to place behind bars drug merchants, howsoever huge, within the subsequent two years.
“We have mapped the drug network across the states. No matter how big the criminal is, in the next two years there will be a situation that they will be behind bars,” Shah mentioned.
He mentioned the problem of drug menace is a critical one as earnings from this commerce are additionally used to finance the acts of terror.
He mentioned the presence of soiled cash additionally destroys economic system and the federal government will depart no stone unturned in reaching the goal of medication free India.
Shah mentioned Rs 97,000 crore value medication have been destroyed between 2014 and 2022 whereas Rs 23,000 crore medication have been seized between 2006 and 2013 and the federal government will carry ahead its marketing campaign in opposition to medication with gusto.
On the seizure of three,000 kg medication in Gujarat, he mentioned it was a mirrored image of the state authorities’s pro-active motion in opposition to the menace.
He mentioned all these concerned within the smuggling of the medication have been arrested.
The supply of medication was traced to some Gulf international locations and motion has been taken to make sure that the factories have been shut down, he mentioned, including the consignment was seized because of the scientific surveillance mounted by the Customs division and allied companies.
Referring to the row over the powers given to the border guarding forces to register circumstances alongside the worldwide borders, the house minister mentioned those that have been making political points out of it have been supporters of drug commerce.
NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday mentioned the battle in opposition to medication was delicately poised and urged states to combat the menace along with the central authorities, maintaining apart politics.
Responding to a short-duration dialogue within the Lok Sabha on the drug-abuse drawback within the nation and steps taken by the federal government to manage it, Shah mentioned the Modi authorities has zero tolerance coverage in the direction of medication and vowed to place behind bars drug merchants, howsoever huge, within the subsequent two years.
“We have mapped the drug network across the states. No matter how big the criminal is, in the next two years there will be a situation that they will be behind bars,” Shah mentioned.
He mentioned the problem of drug menace is a critical one as earnings from this commerce are additionally used to finance the acts of terror.
He mentioned the presence of soiled cash additionally destroys economic system and the federal government will depart no stone unturned in reaching the goal of medication free India.
Shah mentioned Rs 97,000 crore value medication have been destroyed between 2014 and 2022 whereas Rs 23,000 crore medication have been seized between 2006 and 2013 and the federal government will carry ahead its marketing campaign in opposition to medication with gusto.
On the seizure of three,000 kg medication in Gujarat, he mentioned it was a mirrored image of the state authorities’s pro-active motion in opposition to the menace.
He mentioned all these concerned within the smuggling of the medication have been arrested.
The supply of medication was traced to some Gulf international locations and motion has been taken to make sure that the factories have been shut down, he mentioned, including the consignment was seized because of the scientific surveillance mounted by the Customs division and allied companies.
Referring to the row over the powers given to the border guarding forces to register circumstances alongside the worldwide borders, the house minister mentioned those that have been making political points out of it have been supporters of drug commerce.