CM: 30% reduction in drug trafficking
Chief Minister Sukhvinder Sigh Sukhu today said that drugs were being supplied via the Ferozepur-Mandi-Seraj-Anni route to remote villages of the state.
“Our police have taken strict action against drug traffickers, resulting in 30 per cent reduction in the illicit drug business,” the Chief Minister said while replying to a resolution moved by Shahpur MLA Kewal Singh Pathania on a policy to check the spread of drug abuse. “We have adopted a zero tolerance policy in this matter,” he added.
Sukhu said that the state was opening the first government de-addiction centre in Solan district to help drug addicts get back into the mainstream. “We can’t wean away the youth from drugs by confining them to closed rooms. We are making this de-addiction centre over 150 bighas to help them return to the mainstream,” he added.
He said that his government had implemented the PIT NPDS Act, which had enabled the authorities concerned to confiscate the properties of drug peddlers and put them in preventive detention. “We are working with an end-to-end approach to control the spread of drugs, mainly ‘chitta’. We have already mapped all panchayats to find out the suppliers and consumers,” he added.
Sukhu said that SPs had been directed to take strictest possible action against ‘chitta’ suppliers, and no intervention by any political person, bureaucrat or any other influential person would be tolerated in the matter related to drugs. Overall, 15 legislators spoke on the matter.
