Amit Shah unveils 3-year plan to end drug trade
New Delhi, June 27 -- Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday released the government's Vision Document on Drug Control (2026-2029) and the Narcotics Control Bureau Annual Report-2025, while unveiling a three-year national roadmap to dismantle drug trafficking networks, saying the Centre would target the entire narcotics ecosystem so decisively that "it will not be able to recover for decades."
The plan, involving more than 40 ministries and departments, aims to target the entire narcotics ecosystem through coordinated enforcement, intelligence, prevention and rehabilitation.
Shah also said the Centre is reviewing loopholes in the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and re-examining the scheduling of precursor chemicals and psychotropic substances used to manufacture drugs.
Chairing the 10th apex-level meeting of the Narco-Coordination Centre (NCORD), Shah said the government has set a target of making India drug-free by 2047 and described the next three years as "crucial."
He said the roadmap is built around four pillars - enforcement, intelligence and operations; precursor and synthetic drug control; demand reduction and rehabilitation; and capacity building and coordination.
"Today our country stands at a critical turning point in the fight against narcotics, where the next three years will decide whether the drug trade will defeat us or we will defeat it. For the future of the country, we must win this battle. Under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi, we will strike the entire drug trade ecosystem so decisively over the next three years that it will not be able to recover for decades," he said.
"Our aim is to conduct targeted intelligence-led action against the entire network and destroy it completely. We have to adopt a strategy to stop drugs at the production stage itself" .
The Centre's strategy shifts focus from arresting individual couriers to dismantling entire trafficking networks. It aims to take down 100 major interstate and transnational drug cartels by following financial trails and attaching illicit assets....
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