What is the 2029 drug-free roadmap?

The 2029 drug-free roadmap is a comprehensive, three-year strategic plan outlined by Union Home Minister Amit Shah to make India completely drug-free by the year 2029. Announced during his visit to Goa, the roadmap calls for a highly coordinated national campaign against narcotics, building upon steady improvements in enforcement, intelligence-sharing, financial investigations, and rehabilitation measures implemented since 2019.

The roadmap is structured around four core pillars and details highly specific operational and public-outreach targets:

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The Four Pillars of the Roadmap

Intelligence- and operations-based enforcement: Strengthening the detection and dismantling of trafficking channels.

Control of precursor and synthetic drugs: Tightening regulations and tracking of chemical components used to manufacture synthetic drugs.

Demand and harm reduction: Focusing on prevention, education, and health-centric approaches to curb consumption.

Capacity building and coordination: Enhancing cooperation among central, state, and international agencies.

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Operational Targets (Over the Next Three Years)

To disrupt the supply chain of narcotics, the government has set the following operational goals to be achieved by 2029:

Dismantling 100 international and inter-state drug networks.

Bringing 100 narcotics-related fugitives back to India to face justice.

Destroying 100 clandestine, illegal drug laboratories operating across the country.

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Public Campaign and Rehabilitation Goals

On the demand side, the roadmap emphasizes massive public mobilization and the expansion of support systems:

Citizen Outreach: The anti-drug campaign aims to directly reach 50 crore (500 million) citizens.

Grassroots Volunteers: The government plans to create one lakh (100,000) 'Nasha Mukt Mitras' (drug-free friends/ambassadors) to raise awareness and provide local-level support.

Rehabilitation Expansion: The number of functional de-addiction centres across India will be significantly scaled up to 1,751 to assist recovery and reintegration.

At the local level, Shah highlighted that states like Goa have already established dedicated Anti-Narcotics Task Forces to execute these strategies, while urging public and media support to ensure the campaign's success.