5000 crore worth of drugs smuggled in Assam every year: Himanta Bishwa

In Assam, the CMA set fire to drugs itself

Drugs worth Rs 163 crore seized between May and July, appeals to youth to turn to de-addiction

Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sharma has said that illegal drugs worth Rs 5,000 crore are smuggled into Assam every year. The Chief Minister also directed the police to take strict action against the drug trade. He asked the Department of Health and Social Development to take steps to detoxify those who are intoxicated.

The Chief Minister further said that drugs worth Rs 163 crore were seized from Assam during May-July this year alone, which is 25 per cent of the monthly drug smuggling. Drugs worth Rs 5,000 crore are being smuggled annually. With all this money going out of Assam, the government does not benefit the people at all.

On the other hand, the drugs seized from Assam in two months were set on fire by the Assam Chief Minister himself. Speaking at an event in Berhampur, Assam, the chief minister said illegal drug smuggling and its business was an epidemic. Drugs affect young people and later destroy their entire family.

At the same time it gives birth to many other social evils. The Assam chief minister had set fire to 802 grams of heroin, 1205 kilograms of cannabis, 3 kilograms of opium and more than 200,000 psychotropic tables in Golaghat. And gave a message to Assam to get rid of drugs as well as quit intoxication to the youth.