Nation-wide anti-narcotics fortnightly drives to begin from September
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) is launching a year-long national enforcement drive starting in September to combat drug trafficking. The plan includes targeted operations against absconding offenders, inspections of medical facilities, and awareness campaigns across schools and coastal communities.
Why it matters
This coordinated national effort aims to dismantle drug syndicates and address the diversion of pharmaceutical drugs, which is a critical public health and security concern in India.
Anti-drugs trafficking agencies will launch a year-long national enforcement drive from September to apprehend absconding narcotics offenders, inspect medical shops for diversion of pharmaceutical drugs and prisons as part of an action plan to dismantle syndicates dealing in drugs trafficking.
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has recently written to all the states and various central agencies tasked with fighting drug crimes, asking them to undertake 24 different special drives that will run for a fortnight each till August next year, officials told PTI on Sunday (August 23, 2026).
While an awareness program for students in schools and colleges is ongoing since August 16, the enforcement action drives will begin from September which includes a fortnight where foreigners who indulge in drug crimes will be identified across the country for deportation while the next 15-day drive will target absconding narcotics offenders, according to the action plan.
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