Drugs in Mizoram 1
DRUGS IN MIZORAM
1. DRUG ISSUES :- Mizoram lies in the North East part of India and used to
be isolated from other states of the country. As such, drug issue had not been known until
1970’s. Since 1970 Ganja had been used by some Mizo youths. In the mid 1980’s abuse
of pharmaceutical drugs like Spasmo Proxyvon, Parvon Spas, Nitrazepam,
Alprazolam, Cough Syrup containing Codein phosphate, etc had been known. Again,
during the same period heroin coming from Myanmar became popular and much addicted
by Mizo youths.
On 22nd June, 1992, the Government of Mizoram declared the Mizoram Excise &
Narcotics Department as State Nodal Department for the purpose and administration of
the Narcotics Drugs & Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. Since then, it took initial steps
in combating of illicit drug trafficking within the state.
From the available records maintained by the Mizoram Excise & Narcotics
Department since 1984, total number of persons who have lost their lives due to drugs
abuse may be seen as under :
Year Male Female Total Year Male Female Total
1984 1 NIL 1 2002 85 7 92
1985 1 NIL 1 2003 124 12 136
1986 No record No record No record 2004 122 21 143
1987 5 NIL 5 2005 35 7 42
1988 3 NIL 3 2006 21 1 22
1989 6 1 7 2007 25 4 29
1990 7 NIL 7 2008 9 2 11
1991 7 1 8 2009 25 3 28
1992 10 2 12 2010 13 3 16
1993 17 1 18 2011 12 0 12
1994 24 3 27 2012 39 6 45
1995 49 6 55 2013 27 9 36
1996 45 6 51 2014 36 2 38
1997 56 1 57 2015 24 3 27
1998 76 8 84 2016 50 9 59
1999 77 12 89 2017 53 12 65
2018 (upto 38 10 48
2000 128 11 139 Feb)
Grand
1344 172 1516
2001 92 9 101 Total
Table 1 - Showing Drug-related death in Mizoram since 1984 till 31st Oct 2018 (Source - Excise &
Narcotics Dept, Mizoram)
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The following tables may highlight drug issues within the state (Achievement of Excise &
Narcotics Department, Mizoram:
SEIZURE OF DRUGS BY EXCISE & NARCOTICS DEPARTMENT DURING THE LAST FOUR
YEARS (2015-2018)
2018 (as
Sl PARTICULARS 2015 2016 2017 on 31st TOTAL
No
Oct)
1 DRUGS SEIZED
a) Heroin (in kilogram) 4.088 4.039 6.186 6.173 20.486
b) Opium (in kilogram) 0.000 18.478 0.000 0.056 18.534
c) Ganja (in kilogram) 163.742 165.630 392.018 178.160 899.549
d) Ganja Plant (in Number) 1343 30 4127 36 5536
e) Hashish (in kilogram) - - - -
f) Methamphetamine (in tablet) 54400 15000 13400 0 82800
g) Nitrazepam (in tablet) 602 75 396 228 1301
h) Alprazolam (in tablet) 2970 1404 5223 49094 58691
i) Tramadol (in tablet) 20 2453 1506 4820 8799
j) Cough Syrup (in phial) 185 465 1601 4033 6284
l) Parvon Spas/(Spasmo Proxyvon,
Parvon Spas etc were sum as
Dextropropoxy-phene fr 2015) (in 10998 7400 4034 0 22432
cap.)
n) Pseudoephedrine (in tablet) 912626 1717000 159471 1107000 3896097
o) Others : (in number) 19843 vials 19843 vials
0 -
of ketamine of ketamine
2 No. of persons arrested under NDPS
439 445 490 553 1927
Act. '85
3 No. of cases registered under NDPS
361 328 407 431 1527
Act. '85
Table NO 2 : Showing achievement of the Mizoram Excise & Narcotics Dept. within the last four
years ie. 2015 - 2018 (upto 31st October)
(c) TRAFFICKING ROUTES :- Mizoram is located in the north east part of the
country and it shares two long international borders, one with Myanmar (404 Kms) and
with Bangladesh (318 Kms.). Being adjacent to the “Golden Triangle” Mizoram is one of
the drug trafficking routes from the Golden Triangle to elsewhere. The 20 kms of free
movement region on both sides of Mizoram and Myanmar has aggravated the problem.
Presently the drug traffickers of Golden Triangle regard the routes of Mandalay-Kalay-
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Tiddim-Aizawl-Silchar(Assam) as safe conduits to the prospective national and
international markets.
Recently, the Mizoram Excise & Narcotics Dept seized a number of
pseudoephedrine tablets which came from different states in the country which were
meant for manufacture of ATS like methamphetamine in Myanmar-China border. The
Department also seized a number of Methamphetamine tablets coming from Myanmar.
When interrogated, all the persons arrested for ATS mentioned that the ATS they
brought were manufactured within Myanmar-China border which were marketted wihtin
TAHAN, Myanmar and its neighbouring cities/villages. It has been reported that the ATS
coming from these places were meant for sale in muslim countries like Bangladesh and
Middle East. Fortunately, it may be noted that there is no demand for ATS within
Mizoram so far.
The following tables will show how Mizoram is used for drug trafficking route by
the foreigners epecially Myanmarese.
YEAR No. of foreigners arrested
2010 133
2011 76
2012 92
2013 49
2014 47
2015 31
2016 13
2017 31
2018 23
TOTAL 495
Table No 3 - Showing number of foreigners arrested by the Mizoram Excise & Narcotics
Dept within the last nine years (2010 - 2018)
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