StatesHaryana
Saini sets out seven-point plan to make Haryana drug-free, wants monthly results
Chairing the first meeting of the SANKALP Society, the Chief Minister told police to trace the source of every seizure and to stop chemists selling narcotic pills.
Key points
- Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini wants every police station area made drug-free.
- The plan includes stopping the sale of narcotic pills through chemist shops.
- The SANKALP Society must report measurable results every month.
Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini has laid out a seven-point plan to rid the state of drugs, and told the officials in charge that they will be judged on monthly results.
Saini set out the plan while chairing the first meeting of the state’s SANKALP Society. The seven goals are to make every police station area drug-free, break up trafficking networks at the district level, stop the sale of narcotic pills through chemist shops, bring families into the fight against addiction, make sure hospitals can treat addicts, strengthen awareness and counselling in schools, and open up more sport and other activities for young people.
He told police to establish where every seized consignment came from and to identify the networks supplying it, and to keep trafficking routes and supply chains under close watch, with effective investigation and legal action to follow.
The Society has been asked to show measurable progress every month: less availability of drugs, more young people brought into treatment and fewer relapses. Accountability, the Chief Minister said, “must be fixed at every level.”
Next door in Punjab, the sale of drugs through chemists is under scrutiny after anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota was shot dead in Mansa on Tuesday during an argument with a chemist he accused of selling drugs.