Overview
- The NCB-compiled cross-border report, published May 23, 2026, combines 2020–2024 seizure and arrest data and shows Assam with about 12,500 NDPS cases and 20,398 arrests.
- Manipur recorded the region’s largest heroin recoveries at 1,750.34 kg over five years, a pattern linked to cross-border routes from Myanmar’s Golden Triangle.
- The report maps state-level specialisations: Odisha logged 850,792 kg of ganja seizures, Mizoram recorded 2,218.27 kg of ATS seized, and Bihar and Jharkhand showed notable opium and poppy indicators.
- It flags large pharmaceutical diversions such as 2.75 million codeine syrup bottles in West Bengal and millions of tablets seized in other states and calls for tighter precursor controls and financial probes into trafficking networks.
- Authors recommend immediate steps to improve coordination between the NCB, state police, Customs, DRI, BSF, Assam Rifles and railway and highway interdiction units, a move that could focus enforcement on border corridors and logistics hubs and change how communities near those routes are policed and checked.