Drug-Free India by 2029 — the Three-Year Roadmap
The Union Home Ministry's roadmap to a drug-free India, announced on 6 September 2026 and carried in a Vision Document for 2026 to 2029: four pillars, 25 components and more than 200 dated action points, driven through the Narcotics Control Bureau and the states' Anti-Narcotics Task Forces. Its latest enforcement test is Operation Trident of 23 October 2026, in which Narcotics Control Bureau-led teams hit 38 sites in Assam, Mizoram and Manipur at the same time, going after a cross-border cartel's money as well as its drugs.
- Drug-Free India 2029
- narcotics control
- NCORD
- Anti-Narcotics Task Force
- PIT-NDPS
- Death Crescent
- NIDAAN portal
- Narcotics Control Bureau
- BHARATPOL
- fugitives
- Operation Trident
- network-centric approach
- Death Triangle
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