Telangana to join nationwide anti-drug pledge as Excise dept. highlights major seizures over 5 years

The Centre has called for a nationwide anti-drug pledge to beryllium taken connected Tuesday. Following the directive, the State authorities has instructed schools, colleges, women’s groups, anganwadi workers and Auxiliary Nurse Midwives crossed Telangana to administer the pledge simultaneously astatine 11.30 a.m.

Ahead of the event, the Prohibition and Excise Department released a elaborate relationship of its enforcement and consciousness efforts carried retired nether the run since 2021.

Alongside enforcement, the section said it has prioritised consciousness initiatives successful agrarian and municipality areas. In 2024, seminars connected cause maltreatment and ineligible consequences were conducted successful 437 villages, 146 municipalities and 354 colleges. By October this year, the section had organised akin sessions successful 468 villages, 144 municipalities and 392 acquisition institutions, moving intimately with sarpanches, pupil bodies and section communities.

Officials said the State remains committed to some enforcement and nationalist consciousness arsenic portion of its multi-pronged effort to combat cause usage and trafficking.