Hyderabad, Oct 20 :Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has instructed the police and excise officials to wipe out Opium’s illegal cultivation, usage and stamp it down with firm feet.

Addressing at the high level meeting of officials from these two departments at Pragathi Bhavan here on Wednesday, the Chief Minister said with reports that the usage of Cannabis (Ganja) is on the increase, there is an urgent need to declare all out war against the drug abuse, a release from Chief Minister’s Office here said.

Mr Rao said before the situation goes out of hands and becomes severe one should be on alert. He instructed the officials concerned to prepare a comprehensive action plan to totally eradicate the ganja production.

He said “We have achieved Telangana state after a long fight. We have achieved several targets with development as the sole aim. With the development that we have achieved in the agriculture sector, crops are being cultivated in 1.30 crore acres. The state is marching ahead of Punjab in the agriculture sector.

Through Mission Bhagiratha, safe and pure drinking water is supplied to even remote villages in the forest areas. We have achieved a wonderful result in the power sector.

Whatever we have aspired to during the Telangana statehood movement, we have been fulfilling and marching ahead. We have won appreciation within the country and world over. 99 per cent of the worldwide corporations are investing huge funds in the state.

It is due to the excellent law and order situation that our police with their professional skills and capabilities are maintaining, we are able to attract such huge investments,” the Chief Minister said

“We have successfully controlled extremism in the state. Behind this victory, there are sacrifices from the police force. They have waged a valiant fight. With this, the prestige and respect of the state has gone up. It is unfortunate that while the state is making rapid strides in development, the availability of the banned drugs has increased,” Mr Rao said.(UNI)