The Hisar district administration has launched a campaign to destroy cannabis plants on the direction of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.[1] Deputy Commissioner Pradeep Dahiya, who heads the district administration, said a team from the Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Department, Hisar, had begun the work.[1] The team destroyed plants in ten villages: Chaudhariwali, Adampur, Kohli, Khairampur, Fransi, Landhdi, Kinala, Narnaund, Mazra and Budhana.[1]

The department’s deputy director, Dr Rajbir Singh, said the plants had been destroyed in those villages and that the work was continuing across the district.[2] Dahiya said the plants were being pulled out by the roots and destroyed so that they could not grow again.[2]

The High Court had expressed serious concern about the widespread growth of cannabis plants.[2] It said the plants are used to prepare an intoxicant that was destroying the younger generation “like termites”, and that curbing their spread was very necessary.[2]