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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said the value of the recent drug seizure off the Kerala coast was more than the cumulative value of narcotics seized during the ten-year rule of the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre before the BJP came to power in 2014..
Mr. Shah made these comments while laying the foundation stone for the permanent campus of the National Academy of Coastal Policing at Okha (NACP) in Devbhumi Dwarka district of Gujarat...
It proves that the security scenario has improved, the Home Minister said.. Nearly 2,500 kg of methamphetamine worth around 12,000 crore was seized from a vessel in Indian waters along the Kerala coast in a joint operation by the Navy and the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) recently...
Under the Modi government, a holistic policy on coastal security is now being followed, Mr. Shah said.. Earlier, there was no specialised training for jawans of the Border Security Force, Coast Guard and the Coastal Police of different States and Union Territories..
PM Modi has created a Sudarshan Chakra or security ring for India and has left no stone unturned to fortify the border security, he said.. NACP, the countrys first national academy to train police forces in effectively safeguarding the shoreline, started functioning in 2018 from the campus of the Gujarat Fisheries Research Centre..
