Use anti-drug fund for de-addiction services, not just policing: Ministry
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The Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry has recently recommended that the National Fund to Control Drug Abuse be used to carry out de-addiction programmes, rather than just policing activities, a top Ministry official said on Sunday.
Secretary, Department of Social Justice and Empowerment of the Ministry, R. Subrahmanyam, said the fund, which was created in accordance with a provision of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, had a nominal corpus of ₹23 crore. Under the NDPS Act, the sale proceeds of any property forfeited, grants made by any person and institution, and income from the investments of the fund, go towards the fund. The Act states that the fund would be used to combat illicit trafficking of narcotics, rehabilitating addicts, and preventing drug abuse.
“It is being used only for policing activities. We recently proposed to add de-addiction to it,” Mr. Subrahmanyam said.
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