Mission Yuva Raksha Drive Reaches Jaora Polytechnic Students

The Central Bureau of Narcotics (CBN), the agency under the Ministry of Finance that regulates licit opium cultivation and acts against illicit trafficking, has carried out a set of preventive programmes in Madhya Pradesh. They were reported on 26 September 2026 and were run under Mission Yuva Raksha, the outreach that carries the message of a Nasha Mukt Bharat to young people.

The programme at Jaora

An awareness programme was organised at G.T. Polytechnic College in Jaora, in Ratlam district, to tell students what drug abuse does to health, how it can be prevented, and what part the young can play in building a drug-free society. The session used presentations, awareness videos and quiz activities, and it closed with the participants taking and signing the anti-drug pledge.

Reaching the opium cultivators

A second awareness programme was held at Mandsaur as a follow-up to the memorandum of understanding signed between the CBN and the Brahma Kumaris. About fifty opium cultivators and forty officers of the bureau attended it, and this sitting also ended with the Nasha Mukt Bharat pledge. Mandsaur, Neemuch and Ratlam form the belt where opium is grown under licence in the country, which is why the bureau works directly with cultivators there.

Jan Sunwayi for grievances

The bureau also held Jan Sunwayi, or public hearing, programmes at Neemuch and Mandsaur so that cultivators could have their complaints settled quickly and close to home. More than 450 cultivators took part in the two sittings. The questions they brought included corrections of names, Namantaran or transfer of holdings, and eligibility for the coming Settlement Operation 2026-27, the exercise that decides who may grow opium in the season. Officers heard the grievances and disposed of them on the spot.

Cultivators were also warned to stay alert against middlemen and intermediaries, and told to come straight to the bureau for any clarification or help. The CBN said such awareness work, taken together with its enforcement drives, is meant to break illicit supply networks and build a healthier, drug-free society.