Bhubaneshwar: No one would have thought that Odisha, which has acquired a special place in terms of religion, spirituality, culture, tourism, and history, would one day be a drug dealer. Looking closely at the government’s report, it appears that not only two kgs, but the excise department, STP, and district police have seized around 2000 kgs of brown sugar in four and a half years. are Starting from the backward districts of the state, the drug raids were carried out around the east, north, west, and south.
The Brown Sugar has reached the small Lanes
- 2000 kg has been caught in 4 years, how much is the total transaction
- Students in the grip of illegal drugs, forward is an explosive position
- People first consumes, then starts the business
There has been an increase in the sale of alcohol, brown sugar, and marijuana. The situation is so serious that Odisha is already giving competition to Punjab in addiction. During the monsoon session of the Legislative Assembly, the Minister of Excise Ashwini Kumar Patra had presented some interesting information in this regard.
MLA Soumya Ranjan Patnaik, while answering an unsolicited question, the Minister of Unemployment has given the information that from 2018-19 to 2023-244 (August), the unemployment department has seized more than 73 kg of brown tobacco from various districts of the state. In 2019-20, the unemployment department seized 2 kg 963.4 grams of brown tobacco, in 2022-23, 32 kg 512.28 grams of white tobacco were seized.