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Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair a regional conference on Drugs Smuggling and National Security here on Monday, an event during which over 1.44 lakh kg of drugs worth Rs 2,416 crore would be destroyed in various parts of the country...
Mondays exercise would take the total quantity of narcotics destroyed in one year to around 10 lakh kg, having a market value of around Rs 12,000 crore...
Along with this, the officials said, law enforcement agencies of different states would also destroy confiscated drugs, including 1,486 kg in Assam, 229 kg in Chandigarh, 25 kg in Goa, 4,277 kg in Gujarat, 2,458 kg in Haryana, 4,069 kg in Jammu and Kashmir, 1,03,884 kg in Madhya Pradesh, 159 kg in Maharashtra, 1,803 kg in Tripura and 4,049 kg in Uttar Pradesh...
