Chandigarh, June 26 - Haryana Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal said that narcotics worth more than Rs.101 crore have been destroyed in the state on International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking today.  In the same series, narcotics worth Rs 25 crore were destroyed in Panchkula alone.

Sh Manohar Lal disclosed this while interacting with the media persons after destroying narcotics at village Bagwala in district Panchkula near here today. Home Minister, Sh. Anil Vij, Additional Chief Secretary, Home, Sh. T.V.S.N. Prasad and Director General of Police, Sh. P. K Agrawal were also present on this occasion.

While replying to a question, the Chief Minister said that directions have been given to the police to tighten noose around those involved in the smuggling of drugs. Apart from this, after consulting the Chief Ministers of the neighbouring states, a strategy has been chalked out to take a joint action against drug peddlers.  He said that Dabwali has been made a new Police District and this would start functioning from 15 August.

The Chief Minister said that after the Court orders, narcotics recovered from four districts of the State have been destroyed  at village Bagwala in district Panchkula today.  This includes 35 kg of poppy husk, 4 kg of heroin, 500 grams of smack, 6 kg of charas, 21 kg of opium, and more than 1.75 lakh pills, capsules and injections.

The Chief Minister said that since 1987, every year June 26 has been observed as International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking all over the world. Today four programmes have been organized in Panchkula.

Sh. Manohar Lal said that as the saints and gurus and social institutions are coming forward to work with the State Government to eliminate the drug menace, Haryana would soon become a drug-free State.