Drug-free villages to get financial aid: CM Mann

Soliciting village panchayats’ support in the ongoing “Yudh Nashian Virudh” campaign, CM Bhagwant Mann on Thursday announced to allocate financial assistance and development projects to drug-free villages.

Addressing a gathering at a state-level function to mark Panchayat Diwas, he said any village that declared itself drug-free would be given Rs 1 lakh assistance, besides other facilities.

He said such villages would be developed as model villages and no effort would be spared in ensuring their development. Mann asked the sarpanches to play a proactive role in the noble cause so that the scourge of drugs could be wiped out from the state.

The CM claimed to have already snapped the drug supply chain, besides arresting big fish involved in the illegal trade. For the first time, the properties of the drug smugglers acquired illegally were being destroyed or confiscated by the government, he said.