From Express India
Sabyasachi Bandopadhyay
March 1, 2011
Kolkata The Ministry of Home Affairs has told the state government to check the alarming rise in narcotics smuggling into Bangladesh and undertake a special drive to destroy all ganja cultivation occuring in the border areas.In a letter to Chief Secretary Samar Ghosh last week, Rashmi Gotel, Joint Secretary in the MHA, said: “Altogether, 70 per cent of all narcotics seizures takes place at the border. In a meeting with Indian authorities, the Bangladesh Guards requested us to check this. You should take all steps to put an end to this.”
There has been a lot of ganja cultivation in the border areas and it is a cause for concern, the letter added. “The government should take steps to check this too.”
State government officials say they are doing everything to stop narcotics smuggling. “Our officials have been regularly destroying ganja cultivation at various places and arrests have been made,” said an official.
The BSF authorities say the narcotics smuggling is not as alarming as depicted. “The Bangladesh authorities consider even phensydyl as narcotics,” said JSND Prasad, DIG, BSF South Bengal. “What we seize comprises heroin and brown sugar too.”He said what was worrying the BSF was the increasing volume of cattle rustling from India to Bangladesh. “Most of the border skirmishes take place because of this,” Prasad added.
Kolkata The Ministry of Home Affairs has told the state government to check the alarming rise in narcotics smuggling into Bangladesh and undertake a special drive to destroy all ganja cultivation occuring in the border areas.In a letter to Chief Secretary Samar Ghosh last week, Rashmi Gotel, Joint Secretary in the MHA, said: “Altogether, 70 per cent of all narcotics seizures takes place at the border. In a meeting with Indian authorities, the Bangladesh Guards requested us to check this. You should take all steps to put an end to this.”
There has been a lot of ganja cultivation in the border areas and it is a cause for concern, the letter added. “The government should take steps to check this too.”
State government officials say they are doing everything to stop narcotics smuggling. “Our officials have been regularly destroying ganja cultivation at various places and arrests have been made,” said an official.
The BSF authorities say the narcotics smuggling is not as alarming as depicted. “The Bangladesh authorities consider even phensydyl as narcotics,” said JSND Prasad, DIG, BSF South Bengal. “What we seize comprises heroin and brown sugar too.”He said what was worrying the BSF was the increasing volume of cattle rustling from India to Bangladesh. “Most of the border skirmishes take place because of this,” Prasad added.
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