The Punjab government on Wednesday approved an insurance plan by a reward up to Rs 2.40 lakh could be awarded to some individual who provides information resulting in seizure of antipsychotic drugs.

Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, that gave the goahead into the policy, ” said really is a significant step towards motivating individuals to play a more proactive part in assisting the government crackdown on drug smugglers and traffickers.

The policy will probably government servants, informers and sources to their function in providing inputs resulting in the retrieval of large number of medication and at the successful execution of various terms of this Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985 and the PIT (Prevention of Illicit Traffic) at NDPS Act, 1988, said state police main Dinkar Gupta.

The quantum of benefit for powerful evaluation, prosecution, forfeiture of illegally acquired land, preventative detention and different significant anti-drug job will likely be determined by a case-to-case foundation, the director general of authorities said in the official announcement .

The rates of this benefit for every kg of drugs obtained are 6,000 to get opiumper cent 20,000 to get morphine base and its additives, Rs 1,20,000 for cocaine along with its additives, Rs 2,40,000 for cocaine and its additives, Rs 2000 to get hashish, Rs 10,000 to get hashish oil, RS600 to get ganja, Rs 2000 to get mandrax pills, Rs 20,000 for both methamphetamine and Rs 15,000 to get 1000 pills for bliss.

Individuals entitled to the benefit under the policy could consist of informers whose guidelines result in seizure of narcotics drugs, psychotropic substances, controlled substances and forfeiture of illegally acquired land.

Other qualified classes contain officials of this nation and also the fundamental authorities such as authorities, prosecutors and officials of authorities services of this government of India who create accusations of narcotics drugs, psychotropic substances and regulated substances, Gupta explained.

The extra DGP of this Special Task Force may sanction a reward level upto Rs 1 lakh, while a sum over the could be warranted with the DGP.

Gupta explained that government officials could normally be entitled to 50 percent of their most benefit.

Gains over this limitation could be contemplated only in situations where the state has subjected himself into a terrific private threat or displayed excellent courage, respectable adviser or resourcefulness of an outstanding character or where his own personal efforts have already been largely accountable to the discovery of an incident of seizure,” he explained.