Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday said a single consignment of drugs seized recently off the Kerala coast.
Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday said a single consignment of drugs seized recently off the Kerala coast surpassed the total value of drugs seized during the 10-year rule of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the Centre before the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in 2014.
Shah was speaking at the foundation stone laying ceremony of the National Academy of Coastal Policing (NACP) at Okha in Dev Bhoomi Dwarka district. The campus, to be constructed on more than 450 acres of land at a cost of Rs.470 crore will serve as a crucial training facility for enhancing the preparedness and capabilities of India’s coastal security forces.
“The Indian Navy and Coast Guard caught drugs worth ₹12,000 crore off the Kerala coast recently. This is more than what was caught in an entire year in the past. During ten years of UPA, narcotics worth ₹680 crore were seized. And we have caught drugs worth ₹12,000 crore in one instance. It proves that the security scenario has improved,” the home minister said.