Mizoram government will launch a four-month-long special campaign to curb the illegal trade of drugs from today. A senior police official said that the four-month-long campaign and operation would start today and would continue till December 31 this year.
The police, various other law-enforcing agencies, in collaboration with the Young Mizo Association (YMA), will be undertaking the campaign in all drug-affected localities, villages and bordering areas of all 11 districts of Mizoram.
Various drugs, especially highly addictive methamphetamine tablets and different types of contraband, including exotic animals, are often illegally traded through six districts in Mizoram — Champhai, Siaha, Lawngtlai, Hnahthial, Saitual, and Serchhip — which share unfenced borders of 510 km with Myanmar.
From Mizoram, these drugs are ferried to other parts of the country and abroad, including Bangladesh, through Assam and Tripura.
