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Prohibition and Excise Minister Jupally Krishna Rao connected Thursday called for a crackdown connected cause and marijuana trafficking successful Telangana and urged Excise Department officers to usage artificial intelligence, information analytics and different precocious technologies to combat the increasing narcotics menace.
Addressing the passing-out parade of Assistant Excise Superintendents and Excise Sub-Inspectors astatine the Excise Academy successful Bandlaguda Jagir, the Minister said emerging challenges specified arsenic marijuana, synthetic drugs, narcotics networks and amerciable online commercialized necessitate a technology-driven effect from instrumentality enforcement agencies.
A full of 117 officers, including 28 Assistant Excise Superintendents and 89 Prohibition and Excise Sub-Inspectors, participated successful the parade aft completing six months of organization training. Of them, 33 were women officers. The Minister besides presented awards to trainees who excelled during the grooming programme.
Stating that the Excise Department is not simply a revenue-generating limb of the government, Jupally said it plays a cardinal relation successful protecting nationalist wellness and preventing younker from falling into addiction. He described cause maltreatment arsenic a societal menace that destroys families and jeopardises the aboriginal of young people.
The Minister said instrumentality enforcement agencies indispensable marque greater usage of artificial intelligence, information analytics, drone surveillance and societal media quality to place cannabis cultivation, show proscription routes and dismantle cause networks. He added that Telangana was taking steps to present world-class surveillance systems and technologies to fortify enforcement efforts.
Calling for a ruthless combat against narcotics, helium directed officers to stay vigilant against the introduction of drugs into the State and instrumentality strict enactment against gangs progressive successful the trafficking of marijuana and illicit liquor. He said offenders indispensable beryllium brought to justness irrespective of their power oregon status.
Minister Jupally besides urged the recently inducted officers to uphold discipline, honesty, transparency and nationalist work passim their careers. He said curbing illicit liquor manufacturing and narcotics trafficking would lend to making Telangana a safer and healthier state.
The Minister said the courageousness and sacrifice of constable Sowmya, who died portion intercepting the amerciable proscription of marijuana successful Nizamabad, should service arsenic an inspiration to the caller officers.
Additional Commissioner Qureshi, Academy Director Suresh, Joint Commissioner Anjan Rao, Joint Director Shashidhar Reddy, Chief Drill Inspector Ranga Reddy, different elder officials and household members of the trainees attended the event.
