MALDA, 17 FEB: The Narcotics Control Bureau, CID and the police today launched a special drive to destroy opium cultivation in areas under the Kaliachak police station in Malda. The NCB, which has been detecting opium growing centres in Malda, Nadia, Murshidabad and Birbhum districts, has indentified two villages Mukshedpur and Bibigram in Kaliachak, Malda district through satellite imagery as centres of opium cultivation.
According to the regional director, NCB, Northeast region, Mr Pabitra Ghosh, opium cultivation is restricted in West Bengal but criminals and traffickers were investing money for opium cultivation, especially among the Bangladesh border.
Tipped off by the USA after a recent haul, the NCB authority decided to identify opium fields through satellite imagery and destroy those to stop the manufacture and trade of the drug.
“Raw material needed for the narcotic seized in the USA, some time ago was cultivated and collected from the Khayrasol village in Birbhum district”, Mr Ghosh informed.
“Our department is alert to problem and we have already destroyed more than 1000 acres of opium cultivation financed by the mafia”.
In addition to the NCB, the excise department and land and land reforms department have also identified nearly 100 acres of land under opium in the district and started to destroy it. SNS
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