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The Himachal Pradesh authorities has adopted a twin-pronged attack to eradicate the cause menace, adjacent arsenic it identified 234 Panchayats severely affected by chitta (heroin) maltreatment and trafficking, categorising them nether the ‘red zone’.
Under its ‘anti-chitta’ model, the State authorities has clamped down connected cause traffickers portion simultaneously focusing connected the rehabilitation of victims affected by substance abuse. As a portion of its strategy, not lone cause traffickers but besides cause maltreatment patterns were mapped astatine the panchayat level.
Himachal Pradesh has go the archetypal State successful the state to place cause addicts and traffickers astatine the colony level and categorised areas into red, yellowish and greenish zones based connected the cases of heroin successful the panchayats, said a authorities spokesperson connected Thursday.
The exemplary launched by Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu is present drafting attraction from crossed the country. The determination bureau of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has sought a elaborate study from the State authorities to survey the exemplary and research its implementation successful different States for much effectual enactment against the cause menace, said the spokesperson.
As portion of this strategy, the authorities invoked the Prevention of Illicit Traffic successful Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (PIT-NDPS) Act and detained 174 offenders nether its provisions, propelling Himachal Pradesh to the apical presumption successful the state successful presumption of stringent enactment taken nether the law, said the statement.
Illegal properties worthy ₹51 crore belonging to cause peddlers person been confiscated, 3 times higher than the seizures recorded during the erstwhile government’s tenure. Also, much than 700 cases person been probed truthful far, with astir 300 cases recovered acceptable for fiscal probe and spot seizure proceedings. The State government’s broad and multi-dimensional attack to tackling the cause menace has drawn attraction arsenic a exemplary worthy emulating, with Himachal Pradesh emerging arsenic a frontrunner successful the nationalist combat against cause trafficking and substance abuse, it added.
