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Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched the Nasha Mukt Bharat 2029 roadmap at Panaji, Goa, on 6 September 2026.
The launch followed a state security and narcotics review meeting with Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant.
The three-year plan for 2026 to 2029 targets dismantling 100 international and inter-state drug networks, bringing back 100 narcotics fugitives and destroying 100 clandestine laboratories.
It rests on four pillars: intelligence-led enforcement, precursor and synthetic drug control, demand and harm reduction, and capacity building and coordination.
Outreach aims to reach 50 crore citizens through one lakh Nasha Mukt Mitras, using NCC, NSS and MY Bharat networks, while functional de-addiction centres are to rise to 1,751.
A national anti-narcotics framework for 2026-2029 combining supply-side enforcement, demand reduction and rehabilitation under measurable targets
Key: Four pillars, a zero-tolerance border policy and two-way investigation tracing both street-level distribution and the financial networks above it
Mass awareness against substance use, run by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Key: Launched on 15 August 2020 in 272 of the most vulnerable districts identified from the National Survey on Drugs and NCB inputs, and extended to all districts of the country on 15 August 2023
India's principal statute on narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances; it prohibits production, possession, sale and transport except for medical and scientific purposes, and provides the basis for controlling precursor chemicals.
India's apex drug law enforcement and intelligence agency, constituted in 1986 under the NDPS Act, 1985, and working under the Ministry of Home Affairs
Runs the demand-reduction side — the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan and the network of de-addiction and rehabilitation centres
GS Paper III > Internal Security > Linkages of organised crime with terrorism; challenges of narcotics trafficking
General Awareness > Government schemes and current affairs
General Awareness > Internal security and border management
Controlled substances used as inputs in manufacturing narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, regulated because restricting them chokes synthetic drug production.
A trained volunteer under the anti-drug campaign; the roadmap targets a network of one lakh of them.
The limb of drug policy dealing with prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of users, as distinct from supply-side enforcement.
The statute prohibiting production, possession, sale, purchase and transport of narcotic drugs except for medical and scientific purposes.