Drone survey verifies self-destructed poppy farms
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, March 16 2023:
Senapati district administration along with district police, forest officials and officials of revenue department conducted a drone survey to verify reports of destroying illegal poppy farms by the villagers themselves on Sadim hills range in Senapati district on Thursday.
The verification survey was conducted on the basis of the village authorities submitting reports of completing destruction of the poppy plantations to the district police and district administration.
The survey began from 9 am under the leadership of DC Mahesh Chaudhari, and found the reports submitted by the village authorities true.
Simultaneously, district police teams also conducted operation in all the villages to check if they are storing harvested poppy in their houses but found none.
Interacting with the media, the DC said that the cooperation from the villagers is a good sign that would help in the government's 'War on Drugs' mission to a great extent.
He thanked the villagers for their cooperation and appealed for continuous support to the mission.
The DC further said that they could not complete the survey in some areas on Thursday and as such will continue the survey on Friday.
Stringent actions will be taken up against the village authorities if any of them were found submitting false report during the survey, he cautioned.