Pariksha SaathiAmit Shah to inaugurate 3rd National Conference of ANTF Heads
Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah was scheduled to open the 3rd National Conference of Heads of Anti-Narcotics Task Forces (ANTFs) of States and Union Territories in New Delhi on 22 September 2026. Organised over two days by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on the theme 'United Resolve, Shared Responsibility', the meeting brings ANTF chiefs from 36 States and UTs together with other departments to review progress on the targets set for them in the recently released Vision Document on Narcotics Control (2026-29). Its eight technical sessions follow the document's four pillars (enforcement, intelligence and operations; precursor and synthetic-drug control; demand and harm reduction; and capacity building and coordination) and take up issues such as breaking drug cartels, clandestine labs, illicit cultivation, and darknet and crypto investigations. Shah was also to lay foundation stones for new NCB zonal complexes in Lucknow and Dehradun, release anti-drug TV spots, honour the best-performing ANTF and launch the revamped NCB website. The series began with a first national conference in April 2023, and the second was held on 16-17 September 2025.
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Learning context
Police and public order are State subjects under the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution (State List, entries 1 and 2), so the Anti-Narcotics Task Forces are units of State/UT police. The Narcotics Control Bureau, the central coordinating agency, was created in March 1986 under Section 4(3) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985 and functions under the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Reference: Ministry of Home Affairs, role and functions of the NCB
Check yourself: are the ANTFs branches of the Narcotics Control Bureau?
No. ANTFs are set up by States and UTs within their police forces; the NCB is the central agency that coordinates them and organises this conference.
Revision task: list what is State-level (ANTFs, policing) and what is Central (NCB, the Vision Document targets) in this item.
Test yourself
The 3rd National Conference of Heads of Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF), inaugurated by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, is organised by which body?
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Answer: Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) organised the 3rd National Conference of ANTF Heads, held 22-23 September 2026 in New Delhi.
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