{"id":256198,"date":"2025-02-03T00:17:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T18:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=256198"},"modified":"2025-02-03T00:17:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T18:47:02","slug":"cocomi-urges-centre-to-set-up-anti-narcotics-bureau-in-ne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/cocomi-urges-centre-to-set-up-anti-narcotics-bureau-in-ne\/","title":{"rendered":"COCOMI urges Centre to set up anti-narcotics bureau in NE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>IMPHAL, 2 Feb:<\/strong> The Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI) has urged the central government to set up a dedicated anti-narcotics bureau in the Northeastern region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The conglomerate of several Imphal valley-based civil society organisations also appealed to the Centre to declare the region as a &#8220;narco-terrorist emergency zone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a memorandum addressed to the chief ministers of the Northeastern states, COCOMI convener Khuraijam Athouba stated: &#8220;We urge the government of India to officially declare the Northeastern region as a narco-terrorist emergency zone to highlight the gravity of the situation and mobilise national resources accordingly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It also demanded the establishment of a &#8220;specialised anti-narcotics bureau or force dedicated to combating drug trafficking and narco-terrorism in the region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bureau should work transparently and coordinate with the state governments and local authorities, the COCOMI said in the memorandum.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The organisation also called for a thorough investigation into &#8220;alleged complicity of influential individuals and entities in Manipur, Mizoram and Myanmar&#8217;s Chin state in supporting narco-terrorism activities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It sought measures to destroy infrastructure supporting drug smuggling and illegal arms trafficking, as well. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMPHAL, 2 Feb: The Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI) has urged the central government to set up a dedicated anti-narcotics bureau in the Northeastern region. The conglomerate of several Imphal valley-based civil society organisations also appealed to the Centre to declare the region as a &#8220;narco-terrorist emergency zone.&#8221; In a memorandum addressed to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-256198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}