India’s proximity to two of the world’s biggest illicit opium-growing states has enhanced her internal security concerns. Explain the linkages between drug trafficking and other illicit activities such as gunrunning, money laundering and human trafficking. What counter-measures should be taken to prevent the same?
What the examiner wants
Explain how drug trafficking from the Golden Crescent and Golden Triangle links to arms, money laundering and human trafficking, and suggest counter-measures.
Demand-wise check
- 1Geography: Golden Crescent (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran) via Punjab and the Gujarat coast; Golden Triangle (Myanmar, Laos, Thailand) via the North East≈50 words
- 2Linkages: narco-terror funding, same routes and networks for arms, hawala and money laundering, trafficked persons used as couriers≈50 words
- 3Counter-measures: NDPS and PMLA enforcement, NCORD coordination, border fencing and anti-drone systems, port scanning, international cooperation (UNODC, FATF)≈50 words
- 4Demand side: Nasha Mukt Bharat, de-addiction, awareness≈50 words
Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.
Answer plan
Where marks usually go
- Not explaining each linkage separately
- Only demand-side measures
Draw this
- Map: Golden Crescent and Golden Triangle with entry routes into India
Value addition
- CaseAbout 3,000 kg of heroin from Afghanistan was seized at Mundra port in September 2021.DRI, 2021
- DataMyanmar overtook Afghanistan as the largest opium producer in 2023.UNODC, 2023
- LawChapter VA of the NDPS Act (Sections 68A-68Y) allows forfeiture of property derived from drug trafficking.NDPS Act, 1985
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Reviewed public-source references related to this PYQ. Same-syllabus references are labelled separately.
- Aniket Ranjan · AIR 48 · Page 19 ↗Reviewed PYQ reference
- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 21 ↗Reviewed PYQ reference
- Mayank Purohit · AIR 33 · Page 11 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 47 ↗Same syllabus reference
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