Driving street curler over seized narcotics, Himanta Biswa Sarma kicks off huge anti-drug marketing campaign | India Information
3 min learnJul 12, 2026 08:42 PM IST
Resolving to “finish Assam getting used as a transit route for medication”, the Assam authorities on Sunday kicked off a marketing campaign to destroy seized narcotic substances price over Rs 400 crorewith Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma flagging it off by driving a street curler over a whole lot of seized cough syrup bottles.
Based on the Assam Police, seized narcotics price Rs 472.51 crore are being destroyed in several components of the state. Of those, medication price round Rs 300 crore are being destroyed on the 14th Assam Police Battalion campus in Nalbari district, which has been outfitted with an incinerator for the aim.
Police mentioned these embrace 58.88 kg of heroin with a market worth of Rs 117.75 crore; 37,796.34 kg of ganja (Rs 188.98 crore); 2,29,449 cough syrup bottles (Rs 22.94 crore); 18,70,922 Yaba tablets, together with methamphetamine (Rs 78.84 crore); 39.07 kg of morphine (Rs 39.07 crore); and 79.77 kg of opium (Rs 3.98 crore).
Talking on the launch of this drive at Nalbari, Chief Minister Sarma mentioned the Assam authorities will additional crack down on drug distribution networks within the state, saying that the state authorities is anxious about Assam rising as a transit route for heroin, methamphetamine and Yaba tablets, which he mentioned enter the nation from Myanmar by Manipur and Mizoram, and are smuggled by Assam to completely different components of the nation.
Challenges
Sarma mentioned that within the final 5 years, throughout his first time period as Chief Minister, 3,300 instances have been registered beneath the NDPS Act and narcotics substances price Rs 3,227 have been seized. Nevertheless, when requested about motion towards “kingpins” within the drug commerce, Sarma mentioned that there are challenges, pointing particularly to inter-state and worldwide networks.
“It is rather difficult to crack down on drug trafficking networks as a result of the primary traffickers sit overseas, and a number of other layers of brokers and sub-agents are used. However one factor is for positive, if the governments of Manipur, Mizoram, Assam, and West Bengal relentlessly battle towards drug traffickers, and we’re capable of give them exemplary punishment, then we are going to certainly be capable to finish Assam getting used as a transit route,” he mentioned.
Particular DGP (CID) M P Gupta instructed The Indian Specific that a lot of the seizures are made in districts bordering Mizoram and Manipur, after which additional down the transit route in the direction of Guwahatisuch as Cachar, Sribhumi, Karbi Anglong, Dima Hasao and Nagaon.
