March 2025

NIDAAN PORTAL

India’s first portal named NIDAAN’ on arrested narco offenders gets operational.

NIDAAN 

The National Integrated Database on Arrested Narco-offenders portal  has been developed by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB).

It is part of the narcotics coordination mechanism (NCORD) portal that was launched in July 2022 during the national conference on ‘Drug trafficking and national security‘.

It sources its data from the ICJS (inter-operable criminal justice system) and the e-Prisons (a cloud-based application) repository and it is planned to integrate it in the future with the crime and criminal tracking network system or CCTNS.

Initiatives :

Narco Coordination (NCORD) Portal A task force on Darknet and Crypto-Currency has been set up under the Multi Agency Centre (MAC) mechanism with a focus on monitoring all platforms facilitating Narco-trafficking, sharing of inputs The Govt. has launched MANAS Helpline No. 1933 designed as a unified platform for citizens to report the drug-related issues.