{"id":52133,"date":"2019-09-12T10:56:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T05:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?page_id=52133"},"modified":"2019-09-12T10:56:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T05:26:29","slug":"answered-discuss-the-problem-of-cross-border-drug-business-in-india-how-it-is-threat-to-indian-security","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-discuss-the-problem-of-cross-border-drug-business-in-india-how-it-is-threat-to-indian-security\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] Discuss the problem of cross border drug business in India? How it is threat to Indian security?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Demand of the question<\/strong>
Introduction. <\/strong>Contextual Introduction.
Body. <\/strong>Menace of drug business in India. How it is a threat to Indian security?
Conclusion. <\/strong>Way forward. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

India is one of the major hubs for illicit drug trade. Opiates, cannabis and amphetamine-type stimulants remain the main substances of concern in the region, with record levels of cannabis herb seized in India in 2018. Non-medical use of pharmaceutical drugs, containing controlled substances, continues to be prevalent. Global trend of purchasing drugs over the Internet, particularly on \u2018dark net\u2019 trading platforms using crypto currencies has already spread across South Asia, including India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Menace of drug business in India:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. India has become a\ntrafficking center for other countries. The cocaine supplied here is not only\nmeant for India; traffickers exploit this route to enter other countries.<\/li>
  2. India would not be used as a\nsupply route if there wasn\u2019t already a high level of interest in the drug\nwithin the country.<\/li>
  3. Golden Triangle is the area\nwhere the borders of Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar meet at the confluence of the\nRuak and Mekong Rivers. According to United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime\n(UNODC), opium production has gone up in the Golden Triangle by 22%.<\/li>
  4. Golden Crescent is the name\ngiven to one of Asia’s two principal areas of illicit opium production (with\nthe other being the Golden Triangle), located at the crossroads of Central,\nSouth, and Western Asia. This space overlaps three nations, Afghanistan, Iran,\nand Pakistan, whose mountainous peripheries define the crescent.<\/li>
  5. Being closer to the Golden\nCrescent and Golden Triangle, India has been vulnerable to the trafficking of\nnarcotics and drugs such as heroin, hashish, and synthetic drugs produced in\nthese areas.<\/li>
  6. The Golden Crescent, has\nremained the primary source of trafficked heroin in the country since the early\neighties when traffickers started rerouting heroin from this region through\nIndia following the Iran-Iraq war.<\/li>
  7. Increased production of\nopium in Afghanistan, greater domestic demand in India, and connivance of state\ngovernment officials and border guarding forces together contributed towards\nthis increase in heroin trafficking, especially in the Punjab sector.<\/li>
  8. Apart from narcotics, India\nhas been experiencing a significant rise in the use of psychotropic substances\nand medicinal preparations among addicts since late 1990.<\/li>
  9. Stringent narcotics and\ndrugs laws, rising price of heroin and easy availability of synthetic drugs\nhave propelled this shift.<\/li>
  10. India also manufactures a\nlot of synthetic drugs and precursor chemicals which are smuggled out of the\ncountry:<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    How it is a threat to national security?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. This two-way illegal\nmovement of narcotics and drugs pose a significant threat to the national\nsecurity. The breach of the international borders of the country by drug\ntraffickers implies that the same routes could be used for smuggling in weapons\nas well as terrorists into the country.<\/li>
    2. The nexus between drug\ntraffickers, criminal networks and terrorists are another potent threat.\nComposite seizures of drugs and arms by security forces at the borders points\nto a close nexus between drug traffickers and anti-national elements. <\/li>
    3. The money generated by the\nillegal sale of narcotics and drugs is used for financing terrorist activities.\nThe Kashmiri, Sikh and Northeast militants have used drug money to finance\ntheir \u2018struggle\u2019 against the Indian state.<\/li>
    4. Large-scale availability of\nnarcotics and drugs encourages demand for narcotics and drugs by domestic\npopulation. Consumption of which produces dysfunctional behaviour thereby\ncreating law and order problem in the society.<\/li>
    5. This causes a huge economic\ndrain on the country through loss of production and diversion of resources for\ncaring and rehabilitation of the drug addicts (Demographic dividend turning\ninto burden).<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Given these challenges, India should adopt a comprehensive approach to reduce supply as well as demand for narcotics and drugs. Enacting legislation and ensuring physical security of the borders and coasts by strengthening patrolling and surveillance is important. Eliciting cooperation from neighbours by entering into several bilateral and multilateral agreements on prevention of illicit traffic of drugs and chemicals is must to stop drug syndicates across the border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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