Archive · 11 Jan 2026
Amit Shah seeks 3-yr anti-drug plan
Amit Shah, the Home Minister of India, had a meeting about drugs.
He said that from 2014 to 2025, India has seized drugs worth Rs 1.71 lakh crore.
He wants all departments to make a plan to stop drugs for the next three years.
He said that drugs are a big problem and can hurt the youth and society.
The government will work in three ways: stop the supply of drugs, reduce the demand for drugs, and help people who are addicted.
They will also destroy opium crops to stop drugs from being made.
Shah said that they will have regular meetings to check how well they are doing.
Drugs worth Rs 1.71 lakh crore seized from 2014 to 2025.
Amit Shah directed departments to prepare a three-year anti-drug plan.
Government to adopt a three-pronged approach: supply reduction, demand reduction, and harm reduction.
Opium crops on 40,000 acres destroyed by November 2025.
Regular district and state-level meetings to be held for review and accountability.
- Who
- Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Government of India
- What
- Directed departments to prepare a three-year anti-drug plan
- When
- Meeting held on January 10, 2025; Campaign to launch on March 31, 2025
- Where
- Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi
- Why
- To eradicate drug menace, considering it a conspiracy to ruin future generations and linked to narco-terror
- Drugs seized (2014-2025)
- Rs 1.71 lakh crore
- Drugs seized (2004-2013)
- Rs 40,000 crore
- Opium crops destroyed (2020)
- 10,770 acres
- Opium crops destroyed (2025)
- 40,000 acres
- Meeting chaired
- 9th Apex-Level Meeting of NCORD
- Location
- Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi
- Campaign launch date
- March 31
- Campaign duration
- 3 years