What this is
Prevention that starts in the classroom
Drug awareness works best before problems take hold. War on Drugs takes that conviction into schools — meeting students where they are, with information they can rely on and a message delivered with respect rather than fear.
It is a straightforward idea: visit schools across the city, sit with students, and have the kind of honest conversation about drugs that too often happens too late. No lectures, no alarmism — just clear facts, real questions, and a community that shows up for its young people.
Why it exists
Because awareness is the strongest safeguard
Young people today face pressures and exposure that earlier generations did not. The most effective protection is not fear — it is understanding: knowing the risks, seeing through the myths, and having trusted adults to turn to.
As a councillor, I meet families across the ward who want their children to grow up safe and confident. This initiative is a practical response — a way to put honest guidance in front of students, and to give the whole community a role in it.
Inside a school visit
What a session looks like
Every visit is shaped around the students in the room — but the arc stays the same.
An honest conversation
Sessions open with a plain, non-judgemental talk — no scare tactics, just facts students can trust and questions they can ask freely.
Understanding the risks
We explain how dependency begins, the pressures young people face, and the everyday choices that keep them in control.
Knowing where to turn
Students learn who to speak to — teachers, families, counsellors and helplines — long before a problem grows serious.
A shared commitment
Each visit closes with a simple pledge, leaving students as ambassadors for a drug-free campus among their peers.
Our aim
What this initiative works toward
Reach students early
Meet young people at the age awareness matters most, in a setting they already trust.
Involve the whole community
Give parents, teachers and residents a clear way to stand alongside the effort.
Build lasting habits
Move beyond one-off talks toward a steady culture of awareness across the ward's schools.
Part of a wider effort
This initiative supports, at the local level, campaigns already underway at the district and national level:
Panchkula's district anti-drug campaign
An ongoing district-wide effort to curb substance abuse and raise awareness among residents — the ground this programme builds on locally.
Nasha Mukt Vidyalaya — Ministry of Education
A national school programme promoting drug-free campuses. War on Drugs brings that intent into classrooms across the ward.
The reality
Drugs in Haryana & Panchkula — by the numbers
Why this campaign matters. Figures come only from official bodies — the NCRB, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Haryana Police (DGP), Panchkula Police & Traffic Police, and the AIIMS national survey — each attributed to the issuing body and labelled by level and year.
3rd
Haryana's rank in India for opioid addiction, by absolute numbers
AIIMS national survey · 2019
5.9 lakh
people in Haryana in harmful or dependent opioid use — about 2.5% of the population
AIIMS · 2019
3,738
NDPS drug cases registered across Haryana in 2025, with 6,801 arrests
Haryana Police / DGP · 2025
₹6 crore
heroin seized in Panchkula's largest-ever single bust (3.89 kg), April 2026
Panchkula Police · 2026
34,315
residents reached door-to-door by Panchkula's anti-drug outreach
Panchkula Police · 2024–25
3,535
found to be affected by substance abuse in that outreach; 190 admitted to rehab
Panchkula Police
Consumption & usageHaryana · AIIMS national survey, 2019
How many people in Haryana are affected, from India's most recent national substance-use survey with state breakdowns. This is state-level data — no Panchkula-specific prevalence survey is published.
| Substance | Haryana rank | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| Opioids | 3rd (absolute numbers) | 5.9 lakh in harmful/dependent use — 2.5% of the population (8th by percentage) |
| Sedatives (non-prescription) | 6th | 1.2 lakh in harmful/dependent use; 0.52% (9th by percentage) |
| Inhalants (children/adolescents) | 5th | ~35,000 children/adolescents needing help |
| Injecting drug use | 6th | 55,000+ people who inject drugs |
| Cannabis (charas/ganja) | 7th | 2.9% current use; 3.5 lakh in harmful/dependent patterns |
| Alcohol | 9th overall; 7th among men | 21.6% current consumption |
National baselines for context: alcohol 14.6%, cannabis 2.8%, opioids 2.06%, sedatives 1.08%. The AIIMS survey covered ~2 lakh households (4,73,569 individuals) across 36 states/UTs.
Trafficking & enforcementHaryana · Haryana Police (DGP) & NCB
2025 — Haryana Police (DGP)
- 3,738 FIRs registered under the NDPS Act; 6,801 persons arrested.
- 457 commercial-quantity cases (1,227 arrests); 55.84 kg heroin and ~6.59 lakh pharmaceutical drug units seized.
- ₹13.59 crore in property seized from 143 traffickers; 147 hardcore offenders held under preventive detention (2022–25).
Six-year cumulative, 2020–2025 (DGP)
- 20,519 FIRs and 35,207 arrests; 2,224 commercial-quantity cases (5,824 arrests).
- 1,819 kg opium and 814 g cocaine seized; ₹67.01 crore in trafficker property seized since 2007.
NCB, 2024
- Haryana recorded 113 trafficking cases (Delhi 208; Punjab & UP 193 each; Rajasthan 103).
- 63 kg heroin seized; Haryana led all northern states in ganja seizures at 9,955 kg (J&K 1,168 kg; Punjab 863 kg).
Enforcement in Panchkula districtPanchkula · Panchkula Police
- April 2026: 3.89 kg heroin seized (~₹6 crore) — the district's largest single recovery — plus ₹15 lakh drug money; a network sourcing from the Pakistan border and supplying the Chandigarh Tricity; three arrests.
- 'Maidan 2.0' 10-day drive: ₹4 crore+ narcotics seized, 11 traffickers arrested across 10 cases (1.946 kg heroin, 7.224 kg opium, 215 g charas).
- Frequent smaller busts — e.g. heroin/opium worth ₹14 lakh (3 arrested) and cases with 50,000+ banned pills.
Drug-related deathsHaryana · NCRB (Accidental Deaths & Suicides in India)
- Overdose deaths, 2024: Haryana 3 (Punjab 106; Tamil Nadu 313, the national high). India-wide overdose deaths rose 654 → 978 from 2023 to 2024.
- Suicides attributed to drug/alcohol addiction: 2021 — Haryana 89 vs Punjab 78; 2020 — Haryana 57 vs Punjab 72.
- In 2021, Haryana recorded 0 overdose deaths vs Punjab's 78 — Haryana's addiction-related deaths that year were classified as suicides, which affects year-to-year comparability.
- Deaths from spurious/illicit liquor, 2021: Haryana 13 vs Punjab 127.
NCRB counts overdose deaths and suicides due to addiction as separate categories — they should not be added together.
Drink/drug-driving & road safetyHaryana & Panchkula · Haryana Police & Panchkula Traffic Police
- Haryana 2023: of 10,463 road accidents (4,968 deaths), 66 accidents and 28 deaths were attributed to alcohol/drug consumption — under 1%; overspeeding caused 64.7% of accidents.
- Panchkula drunk-driving challans (Jan–Nov 2025): 4,180 — the 4th-highest district in Haryana (Gurugram led with 24,972, ~40% of the state total).
- Panchkula road accidents, full-year 2025: 313 accidents, 128 deaths, 297 injured. Jan–Jul 2026: 133 accidents (−29% YoY), 62 deaths (−22.5%).
- Note: Panchkula accident reports did not separately record how many crashes involved drugs or alcohol.
Treatment & de-addiction outreachPanchkula · Panchkula Police ('Nasha aur Hinsa Mukt' campaign, from Dec 2024)
Panchkula Police's door-to-door outreach and de-addiction drive — the most granular district-level figures available.
| Checkpoint | Locations | People engaged | Identified affected | Counselled/treated | Admitted to rehab |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early phase | 551 | 34,315 | 3,535 | 3,258 | 190 (Civil Hospital, Sector 6) |
| 300-day mark (Oct 2025) | 305 | 25,020 | 2,668 | 2,464 | 117 |
The two rows come from separate updates at different checkpoints and are not perfectly cumulative — reported figures fluctuated with the reporting window.
How to read this dataNotes & caveats
- State/national figures are from official reports — the AIIMS survey, NCRB, and NCB. District figures (enforcement, outreach, traffic) are official Panchkula Police and traffic-police announcements, carried in the press.
- No official source publishes a district-level (Panchkula) drug-consumption or drug-death survey — those are Haryana-state figures used as the closest proxy.
- The AIIMS substance-use survey is from 2019 — the most recent national survey with published state breakdowns.
- Enforcement counts (cases, arrests, seizures) reflect police activity, not total prevalence; NCRB death categories are defined separately and are not additive. Each figure is labelled with its level and year.
SourcesOfficial reports & police announcements
- Magnitude of Substance Use in India — AIIMS / NDDTC report (PDF)
- State high on drugs, third in opioid addiction (AIIMS survey) — The Tribune
- Haryana Police registered 3,738 NDPS cases in 2025 (DGP) — Prokerala
- Haryana registers 3,700 NDPS cases in 2025, over 6,800 arrests (DGP) — The Tribune
- Punjab close second behind Delhi in trafficking cases 2024 (NCB) — The Tribune
- Punjab drops to second spot in overdose deaths, 2024 (NCRB) — The Tribune
- Haryana sees more suicides due to drugs than Punjab (NCRB) — The Tribune
- Panchkula police bust international drug network, seize ₹6 cr heroin — The Tribune
- Panchkula seizes narcotics worth ₹4 cr under 'Maidan 2.0' — UNI India
- Panchkula: over 3,200 treated under anti-drug campaign (Panchkula Police) — The Tribune
- Anti-drug campaign completes 300 days in Panchkula (Panchkula Police) — The Tribune
- 10k road accidents in Haryana in 2023 (Haryana Police) — The Tribune
- Gurugram tops state in drunken-driving challans (traffic police) — The Tribune
- Chandimandir emerges as Panchkula's hit-and-run black spot (Panchkula Police) — The Tribune
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