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Indien. Illegal opium trade thrives across Arunachal Pradesh
Indien. Illegal opium trade thrives across Arunachal Pradesh
Guwahati: The flourishing illegal opium cultivation in eastern Arunachal Pradesh has become a major area of concern for security agencies, with the state government miserably failing to tackle this menace. The drug mafia, with some help from Naga rebels, continues to call the shots in the frontier state, where people are reluctant to give up the practice of poppy farming in absence of any alternative for their economical survival.(The Asian Age, Delhi-Mumbai-Kolkata-London, 20.11.2017)