UNION HOME MINISTER AMIT SHAH VIRTUALLY INAUGURATES NEWLY-CONSTRUCTED OFFICE BUILDING OF NCB IN BHUBANESWAR
Bhubaneswar (17/07/2023): Union Minister Amit Shah on Monday virtually inaugurated the newly-constructed office building of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in Bhubaneswar. Earlier, the NCB Bhubaneswar zonal unit was functioning as a sub-zone under Kolkata.
Now, it has been upgraded into a full-fledged independent zone that will cover the entire Odisha.
The staff strength will be increased to 100 from 15. The Union Minister said, "More than 1,44000 kg of drugs have been destroyed today.
For this I thank all the states and NCB as we have been able to destroy drugs worth Rs 2,378 crore through this campaign." According to Shah, a total of 1,250 cases were registered in 2006-13 and till 2014-23, 3,700 cases have been registered.
Earlier, 1.52 lakh kg of drugs were seized and today it is 3.94 lakh kg which shows an increase of 160 percent, he added.
