1. Under the
Ministry of Home Affairs
2. A nodal agency
for drug law enforcement in India intended to prevent, combat abuse and illicit
traffic of drugs to achieve a drug free society.
3. Strategy of
"zero tolerance approach to drugs”
4. Goal: To Build
a drug-free India by 2047
5. Envisaged under
The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985
·
Provides for stringent provisions for the
control and regulation of operations relating to narcotic drugs and
psychotropic substances.
·
To implement the provisions of the
International Conventions on Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances.
·
A National Fund for Control of Drug Abuse
constituted.
6. India is
signatory to
· Convention on Narcotic Drugs 1961
· United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, 1988.
