<span style="color: #222222;">Central Bureau of Narcotics has destroyed 1,032 hectares of illicit cannabis cultivation in Himachal Pradesh. Finance Ministry said in a release that officers of Central Bureau of Narcotics destroyed the illicit cannabis cultivation in one of the biggest destruction operations conducted over two weeks. During this operation, two-pronged approach of creating awareness among villagers along with enforcement was adopted. Community mobilisation was adopted by sensitising villagers about adverse effects of drugs on body and mind. Threats that drugs tend to pose to the future of youth and children were explained.<br />''<br />''CBN has conducted destruction operation in many states like West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, and Uttarakhand. This has resulted in destruction of more than 25 thousand hectares of illicit cultivation of opium and cannabis over the years. CBN had also destroyed approximately three thousand 600 hectares of illicit opium in Arunachal Pradesh in February and March this year.</span><br />