{"id":87403,"date":"2019-12-10T02:31:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T21:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=87403"},"modified":"2019-12-10T02:31:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T21:01:45","slug":"cs-calls-for-strong-action-against-drug-traffickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/12\/10\/cs-calls-for-strong-action-against-drug-traffickers\/","title":{"rendered":"CS calls for strong action against drug traffickers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Dec 9:<\/strong> Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar has asked the law enforcing agencies of the state to initiate strong action against drug traffickers.<br \/>\nAddressing a meeting of the state-level multidisci-plinary coordination committee for control and coordination of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances here on Monday, Kumar asked the law enforcing agencies to &#8220;understand the magnitude of the menace of drugs in the state and<br \/>\ntake steps to control, prevent, address and eradicate the menace from the state.&#8221;<br \/>\nIGPs Ravindra Singh Yadav and Sagar Preet Hooda, Narcotics Control Bureau Zonal Director Rakesh Chandra Shukla, Tax, Excise &amp; Narcotics Secretary Anirudh S Singh, WCD Secretary Niharika Rai, deputy commissioners, superintendents of police, and government officers concerned were present at the meeting.<br \/>\nThe CS directed the DCs and the SPs to &#8220;undertake robust measures to check and prevent the increasing drug menace in their respective districts in particular and the state in general.&#8221;<br \/>\nKumar also called for carrying out intensive IEC campaigns in schools and colleges, involving NGOs, CBOs and other organizations, to sensitize the young generation to the ill-effects of drugs and their use.<br \/>\nHe suggested to the tax, excise &amp; narcotics department to tie up with mobile phone service providers and FM radio channels to broadcast messages in the local dialects about the ill-effects of drugs.<br \/>\nThe CS further suggested initiating &#8220;no-drug campaigns&#8221; in the districts, &#8220;with a well-known cultural personality as their brand ambassador.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe issued direction to conduct extensive surveys in the districts and to destroy illegal opium cultivation, &#8220;in presence of NCB representatives.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe CS also directed the DCs and the SPs to constitute anti-drug squads in their districts at the earliest. (CS&#8217; PR Cell)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Dec 9: Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar has asked the law enforcing agencies of the state to initiate strong action against drug traffickers. Addressing a meeting of the state-level multidisci-plinary coordination committee for control and coordination of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances here on Monday, Kumar asked the law enforcing agencies to &#8220;understand the magnitude [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87403","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=87403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}