Amidst a recent development, the governments of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, following a meeting between Chief Ministers N Chandrababu Naidu and A Revanth Reddy, decided to orchestrate a high-level coordination committee of IPS officials to ameliorate the menace of drugs and narcotics in the two States.
The Revanth Reddy government had set up the Telangana Anti-Narcotics Bureau with an Additional DGP rank officer at the helm of affairs and a similar mechanism had been established for cybercrime issues. After receiving reports that narcotics were being smuggled from bordering States, CM Reddy sought the cooperation of the Andhra Government in checking the menace, to which CM Naidu responded immediately and affirmed that his government had already constituted a six-member Cabinet sub-committee after reports of drug culture prevailing in AP came out.
It was subsequently decided that the two governments would constitute a coordination committee of senior officials to check the menace in the interests of the two States.
