Agartala:Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Tuesday said that his government would focus on efforts to bring the drug nexus of the state to nothing and it would also draw the attention of the Centre to stiffen the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act in order to fulfil the government's motive to make Tripura "drug free."
Deb was speaking at Tripura Assembly's ongoing budget session in response to a reference notice raised by BJP legislator Sudip Roy Barman. Barman urged the government to draw the attention of the concerned ministries and bring some stringent changes in the NDPS Act to effectively neutralize the drug nexus. Reacting to it, Deb said, after the formation of the new government in Tripura in 2018, the aim was to make the state "drugs free."
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"There was enough evidence which suggested that drugs penetrated into Tripura through the borders and rampant trans-border transactions took place. All these attempts were made with an evil design in mind to create social disturbances in the society and destruction of ignited minds could be started from school and college-level", said Deb.
According to him, this government played an instrumental role in the proper implementation of the NDPS Act 1985 and the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1988. As the law was given free hands to take its course, identification, arrest and detention of illicit drug traffickers, collaborators and kingpins started in full swing.