India, Oct. 14 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
In one of the major destructions conducted over one month in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh, officers of the Central Bureau of Narcotics (CBN), destroyed 5,165 acres (2,070 hectares) of illicit Cannabis (ganja) cultivation under "Operation Parivartan".
The cultivation was identified with the help of ground surveys and drone technology, and the destruction operation was carried out with the support of the Forest Department and the Police Department. Despite the difficult Himalayan terrain, CBN teams destroyed illicit cultivation up to a maximum altitude of approximately 3500 metres, wherever cannabis was found growing. Officers trekked daily to remote locations to expedite...