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IFP Bureau22 Nov 2023
There is still no word on whether the survey of poppy plantation had been completed or not and when could the people expect destruction of the ripe poppy pods.
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There is still no word on whether the survey of poppy plantation had been completed or not and when could the people expect destruction of the ripe poppy pods.
Just like Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s silence on the Manipur crisis, the fate of poppy destruction hangs in balance.
One poppy cultivator was handed over to the police and 0.5, and hectares of poppy field at Longpi Kuki village, Nungba Sub-Division under Noney district on Friday.
IFP Editorial: Poppy cultivation fetches hard cash quickly with little effort while traditional agricultural activity requires hard work and a long process and yet the produce they get is little and not commensurate with the labour they had put in.
IFP Editorial: Chief Minister N Biren Singh even with his enthusiasm and earnest zeal to stop poppy cultivation is not succeeding in his effort. So, he has decided to scale up efforts to destroy poppy plantations in the hill areas by combining the brute force of both Central and state forces in the campaign.
IFP Editorial: If there are lapses in investigation and procedure, prosecution is bound to fail. This is exactly why most prosecution cases relating to drugs are running short of conviction when they are put on trial.
IFP Editorial: Thanks to Amit Shah for reminding the top guys here that arrests or seizure is not the endgame and one needs to go further if we are really serious about eradicating or uprooting the drug menace from Manipur or Northeast or from India.
Destruction of poppy plantations after the harvest is meaningless. The government needs to work sincerely to eradicate poppy cultivation and drug menace from Manipur, Kanglei Ima Lup president RK Sanahanbi said.
IFP Editorial: What we must also understand is that not all who are caught red-handed with drugs are the real owners of the seized drugs, but mostly couriers or mules in the modern parlance.
About 70 acres of illegal poppy plants grown at the Maharani hill range were destroyed on Friday.
Destruction of the poppy plantation was initiated as a part of the state government’s ‘War on Drugs’ mission in order to root out drugs for a drug-free Manipur.