Representatives of BRICS member nations will evaluate the drug abuse situation in their respective countries and chalk out strategies at a meeting to be inaugurated by Home Minister Rajnath Singh here on Friday. The BRICS heads of drug control agencies working group meeting will evaluate the drug abuse situation in the member countries and analyse the legislations of BRICS member states as well as devise modalities to share the best practices of enforcement and demand reduction.
The BRICS, an association of five major emerging economies comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, had started as a forum for future economic cooperation and for reforming Financial Institutions. The seventh BRICS summit was held in July 2015 in Russia and India shall be hosting the eighth BRICS summit in October in Goa.
The delegates will deliberate on drug-related issues including improving information exchange mechanisms on trafficking of synthetic drugs and new psychoactive substances, early detection of new psycho active substances, maritime drug trafficking and diversion of precursors and controlled chemicals for manufacturing of illicit synthetic drugs.
The meeting is being organised by India’s Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and it will be attended by delegates from the member countries, the envoys of the five countries, an official statement said.
The directors general of border guarding forces and the paramilitary are also expected to attend the inaugural session along with the heads of the agencies like the Intelligence Bureau and the Central Bureau of Investigation.