Drug trafficking networks, youth rehabilitation, and the power of community — Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini put all three at the centre of a major new state-level push on Tuesday, 13 October 2026, chairing the inaugural meeting of the SANKALP Society in Chandigarh and directing action on seven core resolutions toward a drug-free Haryana.

Posting in Hindi on X, CM Saini framed the mission with characteristic directness: 'नशे को हराना है, युवाओं का भविष्य बचाना है' — 'We must defeat addiction and save the future of our youth.' The resolve, he wrote, is threefold: a hard crackdown on the entire drug-trafficking network, proper treatment and rehabilitation for youth already caught in addiction's grip, and channelling young energy toward sports and constructive activities.

What SANKALP Puts on the Table

The SANKALP Society — its name itself meaning 'resolve' or 'pledge' — held its first formal meeting at Chandigarh, making it the institutional anchor for Haryana's anti-narcotics drive. While the exact text of the seven resolutions has not been made public, the CM's direction signals a deliberate move away from a purely enforcement-led model. Treatment and rehabilitation sit alongside crackdowns as explicit priorities — a nuanced stance that acknowledges addiction as both a law-and-order problem and a public health crisis.

This architecture echoes the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyan, the national campaign launched in 2020 that has pushed states to combine demand-reduction programmes with supply-side enforcement. Haryana's SANKALP framework appears to operationalise that spirit at the state level with a dedicated coordinating body.

Why Haryana, Why Now

Drug abuse among youth has been a persistent and documented concern across Haryana, a state that shares a long border — and, critics argue, supply chains — with Punjab, itself long grappling with a narcotics crisis. State-level anti-narcotics drives in Haryana have historically combined police action with de-addiction camps, but a structured multi-stakeholder society represents a more formal institutional step.

CM Saini was explicit that this fight cannot belong to the government alone. His post named families, teachers, panchayats, and civil society organisations as co-owners of the mission — a political signal that the state intends to decentralise both responsibility and accountability down to the village level.

Sports and Positive Engagement as the Third Pillar

The emphasis on connecting youth to sports and positive activities is not incidental. Haryana has a proud tradition of producing Olympic and Commonwealth Games medallists, and successive state governments have leaned into that identity. Framing athletic participation as an anti-drug strategy gives the campaign a forward-looking, aspirational dimension — not just pulling youth away from substances but pulling them toward something.

With the SANKALP Society now formally constituted and seven resolutions in motion, the next test is district-level rollout and whether follow-up meetings translate intent into measurable outcomes.