Overview
- Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha led a mass padyatra in Jammu on Saturday to open the 100‑day Nasha Mukt Jammu Kashmir Abhiyaan, set to run in six phases from awareness to evaluation.
- New standard operating procedures will cancel passports, Aadhaar and driving licences of accused traffickers, freeze bank accounts, attach properties and trigger financial probes and Look Out Circulars.
- UT and divisional committees are now active, senior officers have been assigned as district mentors and local bodies like panchayats and mohalla committees are tasked to feed grassroots intelligence to police.
- The government has notified 2026 rules to regulate substance‑use treatment centres, promising qualified staff, strict oversight and action against non‑compliant facilities alongside expanded counselling and referral support.
- Officials cite ministry estimates of about 1.3 million adult substance users and years of large narcotics seizures, while leaders link the trade to cross‑border smuggling and terror financing that security forces say they counter with tighter border surveillance.